The Tale of a Field Hospital 1900 - Face page 30 - A hospital train being loaded up at Frere

Frere is a town in Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality in the

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province of

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. The city is named for Sir

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from 1877 to 1880. The city was for a time the headquarters of Sir

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during the

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. The town is 25 km east of Winterton.

Sources

* Erasmus, B.P.J. (1995). '' Op Pad in Suid-Afrika''. Jonathan Ball Uitgewers. .

References

Populated places in the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub