Western armies would do well to foster such platforms today. The British Army suffered a bloody and bruising experience in the Boer War. The war erupted in South Africa in October 1899 when the Boer ...

A series of haunting unseen images from the Second Boer War collected by a soldier from ... the Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902. British military service records show high losses, with ...

303 Lee-Metford which the British Army had been using since 1888, and the improved version, the Lee-Enfield, which was introduced during the second Boer War. They had a greater magazine capacity ...

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

Carton de Wiart left Oxford’s hallowed halls to enlist in the British military and fight in the Boer War in South Africa. He so desperately wanted to fight on the front lines that he signed up ...

Sainik Samachar has whipped up a controversy by claiming that Mahatma Gandhi donned a British military uniform during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Rahul Singh reports. Sainik Samachar ...

only then can amends and long awaited apologies from the British be found. Written and Researched by Peter Dickens with references and extracts from the Military History Journal Vol 11 No 3/4 – ...

In 1899 he saw the opportunity to experience his first taste of war. Abandoning his studies, he left for South Africa to serve as a trooper in the British Army during the second Boer War.

A new study of the oranization and composition of the British Army that was sent to France in 1914. Most studies of the post- Boer War British Army are concerned with the issue of reforming the ...