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Whilst searching online for articles concerning the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, I came across the following:

Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania: Wednesday 6th February 1901, p.3

" NEW SOUTH WALES ARMY MEDICAL
CORPS IN SOUTH AFRICA
MANY OF US DRINK NOTHING ELSE.
3rd Divisional Camp, SPRINGFONTEIN, South
Africa.
3rd April 1900.

THE MANAGER,
DR.TIBBLES' VI-COCOA, Sydney.
My Dear Sir -+The cases of Vi-Cocoa
which you sent with our contingent of
the N.S.W.A.M.C. per SS Moravian,
were not opened till we reached our
first camp at Sterkstroom. The men en- joyed it very much; and as the water
supply was not pure, and the camp was
a hot-bed for enteric (our hospitals
sometimes having as many as 140 cases),
you can imagine what a God-send your
most estimable beverage was to us.
Many of us drink nothing else.
I was enabled, owing to your liberal-
ity, to dispense hundreds of boxes
amongst our comrades in the Imperial
army, of whom there were upwards of
2000 in the field at Sterkstroom alone.
The members of our corps have requested
me to write and thank you for your
very liberal gift, and to state what pleasure
it was to them not only to enjoy
the beverage, but also to be able to dispense
it to others. I have always a
gallon of it in hand (cold) for thirsty
visitors, who enjoy it very much.
Yours faithfully,
I am , my dear sir,
JOHN HOWARTH
Qr. master-Sergesnt N.S.W. Army
Medical Corps. 2nd Contingent.
CAN BE TESTED FREE
Write for a Dainty Sample Tin(a post-
card will do) but mention this paper.
DR. TIBBLES VI-COCOA LTD.,
George-street, Sydney."

Qr. master-Sergesnt John Howarth of the 2nd. Contingent
NSWAMC had regimental number 322, I have just managed to acquire QSA and a couple of other bits of ephemera to 324 Sergeant Harry W. Burden. They were obviously comrades and well known to each other. And no doubt enjoyed knocking back a few Vi-Cocoas together to settle the dust!

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Kruger - El Heroe del Transval
Laidlaw 0473a.
Brass. 31.95 mm diam., 13.09 grams.

An advertising token of Doctor Andreu’s Pills and Papers against Asthma.

Possibly issued in 1930.

Doctor Andreu is the name of a pharmaceutical company which was founded in Barcelona in Spain in 1866. Doctor Andreu focused on the development of investigational drugs to improve the health of the Spanish population and today operates in 44 other countries including South Africa.

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Lord Roberts, 1900
Ref: AM 58A; Hern 136; Laidlaw 0288b.
White metal. Fitted with original ribbon and top brooch pin. 38.29 mm diam., 6.00 grams.

Issued by Simpson & Co., Outfitters in Durban.

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Lord Roberts
Ref: Similar to AM 48 and Hern 114; Laidlaw 0197.
Brass. Fitted with loop. 16.1 mm diam., 1.19 grams.
Reverse: “Westward Ho! Smoking Mixture”

Advertising for: W.D. & H.O. Wills, Limited.

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Coronation Edward VII – John Orr & Co, Kimberley.
Ref: AM2 86; Laidlaw 0816b.
White metal. Missing suspender. Rim nicks and buckled. 38.06 mm diam., 16.37 grams.

Issued by the Kimberley retail store, John Orr & Co, which was first established in 1886, to celebrate the Coronation of King Edward VII. Edward became seriously ill shortly before his coronation and notwithstanding the enormity and importance of the event he was persuaded to undergo a revolutionary operation carried out on a table in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace by Lord Lister and Sir Frederick Treves and was crowned King 6 weeks later, on 9 August 1902.

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Mike