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Would like information on Trooper F.F, Cook - 178 1772 B 1AC/H 25th May South Africa (believed to be with Kitchener) This information was on a pipe believed to be part of our family but no one is sure what all the numbers and letters mean. Hope someone out there can help me. sandra

maybe 178 1772 is actually a date - 17th August 1772

Boer
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Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War.Boer (pronounced /ˈbʊər/, /ˈboʊ.ər/, or /ˈbɔər/; Afrikaans: [ˈbuːr]) is the Dutch word for farmer which came to denote the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking pastoralists of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal (together known as the Boer Republics) and to a lesser extent Natal. Their primary motivation for leaving the Cape was to escape British rule as well as the constant border wars between the British imperial government and the native tribes on the eastern frontier.

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South Africa, Republic of Former British dominion. During the French Revolutionary War, British troops seized the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. Handed back in 1802, the Cape was again captured in 1806 and became Cape Colony. Many Afrikaners (Boers) were irked by British rule and migrated eastward and northward to found the self‐governing republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State.