EU: The "Norman" at the wharf with the Lancashire Fusileers aboard, Cape Town, South Africa (1900)
1900 Cape Town, South Africa
The troopship Norman is docked at the Cape Town wharf in this 1900 photograph, with soldiers of the Lancashire Fusiliers aboard, part of the flow of British troops passing through the port during the Second Boer War.
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