London, The Black and White Publishing Company, Limited, 1899 to 1900. 'The Black and White Budget' covered the participants and and developments of the 2nd Boer War, continuing until 30 May 1903. News, biographical details of heroes, officers and ordinary soldiers, with illustrations from the field and hundreds of portraits..... 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

A lengthy later inscription on the verso is very informative: 'Bert (here pictured)' and two siblings 'all lived in Sth Africa', and that Bert 'had a boy and a girl (Dennis & Moira). Dennis tragically shot thru' head when cleaning rifle (aged 21), Moira inherited fortune on her mother's side..... More

London, John Murray, 1903 [Murray's Imperial Library edition]. The letters were written to Sir Bartle Frere 'in regular succession, from a date shortly before the war broke out.... The writer is a man who has long been resident in South Africa, and has held more the position of onlooker than..... More

The second figure from the right in the front row is wearing a slouch hat with a distinctive hatband, and the brim turned up on the right side. We have discovered the same man in one of Rose's Stereoscopic Views, #2242, 'The Bushmen's Contingent at Camp, Langwarrin', illustrated in 'George..... 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

Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More

Yarrawonga, Yarrawonga-Mulwala R&SL Sub-Branch, 1995. Not least, the 59th Battalion, the 8th Light Horse, and the Boer War. More

Adelaide, Rigby, 1983. More

South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. The Australian Centenary History of Defence. Volume 1. More