By Julia Vaughan Petticoat in Mafeking Fourteenth of October, Eighteen Ninety Nine Ada wrote to her sister, Emily The great Siege of Mafeking had begun Four children, under twelve, to keep safely Fifty-seven letters detail the horror Dug outs under wagons, surrounded by Sandbags, the new, safe-home in a hollow Ninety-six pound shells, dynamite craters … Continue reading Petticoat in Mafeking and Other Poems