The fourth edition of Echoes of Krugersdorp uncovers the realities of life under British military rule and the human cost of survival in wartime concentration camps.

Then there are the real, structured horrors: British concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War—terrible indeed—but rarely is ... and forbade military personnel from attending his burial in uniform ...

How it startedAfter the 1857 revolt, the British reorganised local militia into volunteer forces, which saw action in overseas conflicts like the Second Boer War and World War I. In 1920 ...

They wanted them to be ruled by the British. Rhodes provoked the Boer War (1899 to 1902). The war had nothing to ... There is every reason we should not all be forced together into one bland, uniform, ...

Tooborac farmer Mark Edward Donaldson in his Boer War uniform. Photo: SUPPLIED He was “borne to the ... Brigade Train and was sent to Egypt as part of a contingent defending British interests in the ...

The British & Irish Lions and Rugby Australia are pleased to ... He sailed to Australia when he was a schoolboy sailor aged 15, fought for two years in the Boer war in South Africa and undertook a ...

Scotts are not always as Scottish as their name might suggest but Ronald’s father, Roy Douglas Scott (a Boer War veteran and a dragoon in World ... could enter into active service as a “BLAV” (British ...

Sir Sam Mendes’ 1917 and Sir Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk are easily the best British war films of recent years. And now another joins their ranks from Iraq War vet Ray Mendoza and 28 Days ...

But the Boers refused to engage in textbook battles, choosing to fight a guerilla war that left ... issued orders that any Boer found wearing clothing taken from British soldiers should be shot.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas ... the use of concentration camps in the Boer wars, the massacre of peaceful protesters in ...