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A collection of papers kept during his service in the campaign in German South West Africa during the First World War, comprising a ts translation (7pp) of documents from the Official Gazette of the Protectorate of German South West Africa concerning the proclamation by the Imperial Governor, Dr Seitz, to create a South West African Volunteer Corps, 16 September 1914; ts translations (6pp) of a report concerning peace negotiations between the Imperial Governor and General Botha, and of a General Order from Lieutenant Colonel Franke, the Commander of the Protectorate Force, following the breaking down of negotiations, 26 May 1915; and a ts anti-German report (11pp) of a meeting held at Winghoek to show the Boers that they shared a common cause with Germany, 1 December 1915. Also held with the collection are papers relating to German East Africa, including 29 photographs of sketches by an unknown artist of German officers serving in East Africa, March - October 1918; plus two ms letters (14pp and 4pp) written in May 1916 to an unknown correspondent by M B Furse, the Bishop of Pretoria, while on an official visit to the Union forces in German East Africa, describing the services and recreations he was laying on for the troops during their voyage in the troopship HMT ARMADALE CASTLE, while relating meetings with Generals Hoskins and Smuts, and referring to an account by a fellow passenger of conditions experienced by British prisoners of war in Germany.

Writing on board HMS Armadale Castle, a troopship carrying reinforcements from South Africa to Kilindini, East Africa, Furse, who was making an official visit to the Union forces in German East Africa, describes the services and recreations which he was helping to lay on for the troops during the voyage. However, much of his letter is devoted to telling the story of an English doctor on board, who had been captured in France and later exchanged by the Germans, but only after seeing the appalling conditions in which British prisoners of war in Germany were being compelled to live.