Klerksdorp, Transvaal, Printed by H.M. Guest, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer, 'Mining Record' Office, [3 March] 1901. The 'Hobart Mercury' (18 April 1901) reprints the text of this broadside in its entirety, with the following informative introductory paragraph: 'The "Mining Record", published at Klerksdorp, Transvaal, issued the following "Extra" on the..... More

New York, Underwood & Underwood; Chicago, H.C. White Co.; London, Erdmann & Schanz; Meadville, Keystone View Company; and London, Fine Art Photographers' Publishing Co., 1900 to 1902. The stereo views depict scenes from some of the most important campaigns of the war (including Ladysmith, Colenso, Modder River, Kimberley, Spion Kop..... More

[Cape Town, possibly J.H. Robinson & Co.], circa 1900. The photograph, featuring mainly artillery shells of various sizes (some of them identified), small arms ammunition, and shrapnel (one piece marked '66 Battery'), is signed in the negative 'B.W. Canby'. To say the image is incongruous in a souvenir greeting card..... More

[Melbourne], Robert S. Brain, Government Printer, 1900. Contemporary newspaper accounts record that the concert was 'in aid of the Patriotic and Bushmen's corps funds'. More

Mafeking, Townshend & Son, 1899 and 1900. Dr Robin Pelteret has published his impressive research notes on 'The Mafeking Mail Special Siege Slips' online. He sets the scene: 'Mafeking lies 1392 kilometres north of Cape Town and 298 kilometres west of Johannesburg.... [It] was first settled in the early 1850s..... More

Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. 'Towards the end of the war, British drives and offensives became more successful. This was due to the lines of blockhouses and wire fences which parcelled up the wide veldt into smaller areas. Also, the British were themselves using raiding..... More

Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More

Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More

[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More

Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More

New York, Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, 1900 and 1901. Three of the photographs show activities in the field. Another card has specific Australian content: 'Skirmish Drill, New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Cape Town'. Offered together with two similar stereographs published by M.E. Wright, Excelsior Stereoscopic Tours, Burnley, England. The captions..... More