The Boer War

Boer child in a British Concentration Camp, Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902. About 30 000 women and children died in the British Concentration Camps.

Canada and the Boer War 1899-1902, Canadian Units in the Boer War, 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles

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A photograph of your Anglo-Boer War ancestor may include soldier’s accoutrements which could give clues as to date, regiment and rank: e.g. in the Border Mounted Rifles, a Natal permanent volunteer corps, up to 1896 ammunition was carried in a pouch with a brown leather crossbelt. After that date, the ‘Royston Entanglement’ was adopted – a combined rifle sling and bandolier used by NCO’s and troopers. Officers and Warrant Officers of the unit wore the Sam-Browne sword belt. Incidentally, the…

Many children died. They could not beat the boers in the war. Went for the soft spots women and children.

British Terrorism against Boer civilians. How Britain destroyed the two Boer republics by starving civilians in concentration camps during the Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) by Elma Ross. $6.00. 107 pages. Publisher: Amazon; 2 edition (July 14, 2011)

Q 102053. The bodies of dead British soldiers lay strewn on the ground following the Battle of Spion Kop in South Africa on 23 and 24 January 1900.

Opening van die Voortrekker Monument

ca. 1900, “Sister Pretty Departing”, [Boer War nurse boarding a horse-drawn RAMC supply wagon]

First head nurse of Canadian Contingent to Boer War Georgina Pope wears possibly her nurse uniform from Bellevue Hospital, New York, on 1898.

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Visiting a mass grave at a Concentration Camp site dating back to the Anglo Boer war where the woman and children of the Afrikaner Volk was kept under the most horrid conditions by the British while their husbands, fathers and sons were fighting on the battle fields. This was many years before the Germans did the same to the Jews in the World War.