At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young Canadian men. And for the nation it was an opportunity to show the world ...

A final proof of Boer ... British colonies would seriously endanger Great Britain's future possession of those colonies. The question is a racial one which can hardly be settled in any other way ...

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit ...

At Thursday’s session of the Commons Select Defence Committee, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (DCDS) Lieutenant General Sir Rob Macgowan asserted that the British army was ready to meet the ...

This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front ...

The photos include prints of war dead lying in fields, the funeral of a British serviceman and a Boer War dog. Not much is known about the dog pictured in the photograph - shown wearing a cap and ...

Faction: The British Army The First World War At the start of the 20th century the British Army was a small body of volunteer ...

A rifle from the Second Boer War era was among firearms handed into ... who fought against the British. Most of the weapons handed into the Welsh police forces were shotguns, rifles and air ...