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1899 (Feb 28) Envelope to Winchester from Lt. Col. Broome, Commander 27th Bombay Light Infantry who was present at the 1897-98 quelling of the mutiny of the Sudanese troops in Uganda carried to Mombasa where B.E. A. Protectorate 2½ anna applied & tied by penstrokes & unclear Mombasa squared circle & on reverse a Winchester (5 Apr) arrival cds ……A Broome correspondance cover dated Aug 1898 from the Soli Contractor collection auctioned by Spink in Dec 1999 (lot 382 fetched GBP 2300)