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HYMN BEFORE ACTION
Private Eric Arthur Nobbs, Volunteer Service Coy., R.S. (Royal Scots). South Africa 1900

Author: Sweetheart Keepsake
Subject: ANGLO-BOER WAR EPHEMERA
Date: 1900
Price($): $260.00
Price(£): £150.00
Details: The six verses of Rudyard Kipling's Hymn Before Action (1896) hand written in black ink with a decorated capital on white card and folded to make four pages, inscribed on the last page 'From P.E.N., 12.II.1900 (thought to be his wife Phyllis Nobbs), loosely contained in a simple leather folder which is stained
Catalogue Number: 28
Book Number: #8342/1
Description: An evocative personal keepsake of the type carried by many British soldiers on active service during the Boer War.
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