Carton de Wiart left Oxford’s hallowed halls to enlist in the British military and fight in the Boer War in South Africa ... in the spring of 1915, German artillery severely wounded Carton ...

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa. It was fought between the two Boer Republics and the British Empire. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to ...