Photos Boer wars 1880- 1881 & 1899 - 1902

[NebrHogger]

Most of these have the original captions attached. I transliterated others from Russian.

Australians after a victory at Belmont

I believe this is a diamond mine operated by Boers

Diamond grading operation at De Beers

Boers ready for a fight

Home made Boer artillery

Munster Fusileers

Boer railway platform made of ties

Battery under attack at Honey Nest Kloof

Hollander Corps

Firing from cover

British artillery fire mission

Taking a break

Boer women and children held as POWs

Reporters examining a Boer hut

RR bridge

Boer POWs

Troops fresh from England

Hospital scene

Signal lamp

Royal Navy cutlass drill

 

[NebrHogger]

Found a few more.

Boer unit ca. 1899

Winburg laager

Disparity in age. Left to right, they're 65, 15 and 43 years old

Boer police - Johannasburg

Boer home made artillery

 

[NebrHogger]

Further on the artillery piece shown above... it's the Boer "Long Tom" bought from France with ammunition. The two homemade artillery pieces were called "Ras" guns after the machinist who designed and made them.

155 mm Creusot Long Tom - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ras cannons - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Fluff]

Most of these have the original captions attached. I transliterated others from Russian.

Home made Boer artillery
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Which one is @Bombardier ??

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Nice, FYI -You can keep adding to your first thread, no need to open separate threads for each section of pictures.

 

[Bombardier]

I was tooooo old to fight in the Boer War ?

 

[NebrHogger]

^ Okay. It wouldn't take more so I added them in another post.

 

[BravoZulu]

 

[Blueshead]

Thank you all who contributed towards this site, tons of real good picture material and some of it i have never seen before!!

 

[t13]

... incredible images...

Thank you for posting these amazing pictures. Some of my family fought and others spent time in the camps.

 

[morris]

Volunteers from Finland and Scandinavia to fight in the Boer War

Part of the Scandinavian Memorial at Magersfontein, South Africa, in honour of the some 1,400 Scandinavian volunteers who fought on the side of the Boers

Robert Jutrzenka and Ludwik Zalewski (they are sitting) as soldiers of the German corps during the siege of Kimberley by the Boers in 1899

Foreign military attaches in the Boer army. Russian military attache Gurko sits on the left.

Lt. Col. Maximov (right) in South Africa with General Willem Johannes Kolbe

The Russian Boer general Lt Col Yevgeny Maximov on his return from the Anglo-Boer War, in the uniform of his own design.

 

[Bombardier]

Some British Block House & Anglican Church photos from the media section

Witkop Blockhouse

• ossewa
• Feb 3, 2008
• 2
• anglo blockhouse boer war witkop

The Witkop Blockhouse is a very distinctive design and is located along the railway line...

Witkop Blockhouse

• ossewa
• Feb 3, 2008
• anglo blockhouse boer war witkop

The Witkop Blockhouse is a very distinctive design and is located along the railway line...

Boer War Blockhouse at Leeu-Gamka

• ColynB
• Jul 6, 2007
• boer war fortification

Near this site is the grave of #5396 Private J Schultz of the 3rd Grenadier Guards, who at over...

Anglican Church Noupoort

• ColynB
• Jul 6, 2007
• anglican church boer war

The construction of this church was started by British troops during the Boer War in recognition...

Boer War Blockhouse at Orange River Station

• ColynB
• Jul 6, 2007
• boer war fortification

This Blockhouse guarded the Bridge over the Orange River near Magersfontein. Early one morning...

 

[Bombardier]

^ Okay. It wouldn't take more so I added them in another post.

If there is another thread I could merge it into here, cant seem to locate it so if so provide me the link and I will get it sorted

 

[Bombardier]

+10

Anglo Boer War Construction

• ColynB
• Jul 6, 2007
• 19

Construction that has survived from the Boer War 1889-1902

Thanks @ColynB

found this in another thread I created for @ColynB photos in the media

 

[BravoZulu]

If there is another thread I could merge it into here, cant seem to locate it so if so provide me the link and I will get it sorted

Beat you to it old mate, merged and deleted the other thread just after NebrHogger created it

 

[Bombardier]

Nice work buddy

 

[BravoZulu]

From:
https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/colourised-images-of-ww2-earlier-conflicts.7084/page-4

Boer infantry

Boer commando 1899-1902

 

[BravoZulu]

From:
https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/colourised-images-of-ww2-earlier-conflicts.7084/page-

Boer Creusot 75mm gun on the Natal front December 1899 overlooking Colenso and the Tugela river.

Lancashire Fusiliers in barracks before departure to South Africa

Canadians climbing a Kopje

37 mm Maxim "Pom Pom"

Heliographists at the Fort in Johannesburg.

Boer Telegraphists at a temporary station

A Sergeant Major in the Lothian and Border Horse Yeomanry

Soldier of one of the British mounted regiments with his horse

 

[BravoZulu]

From:
https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/colourised-images-of-ww2-earlier-conflicts.7084/page-4

General Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

Commandant Fouche and some of his men.

Boer camp

Small Boer boy at Pretoria railway station

British troops at Boshof

 

[BravoZulu]

From:
https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/colourised-images-of-ww2-earlier-conflicts.7084/page-4

Boer War 1899-1902

Lord Roberts, Supreme Commander of the British forces in South Africa

Sergeant Corneels Nel of the " De Vrijstaatsche Rijdiensmacht " near Memel, 1898

Mother with her daughters in camp (the child in the chair has died, the photo was taken prior to burial)

Cavalry sabres being painted Khaki.

British Prisoners of War Oct. 1899

Father and sons studio photograph.

Here a first hand account of farm burning by a private Tucker from his diary put in book form “Private Tucker’s Boer War Diary” 1980 ISBN 0-241-10272-3
13 October 1900
“There were several small farms situated around and General Clery gave the order for all of the houses to be destroyed.
My company was given the job of burning several farms to the left and we moved off at once. Arriving at the farms, the women and children were ordered out and after every man had taken any article he thought fit, the furniture was broken up and the houses and all the goods were set on fire. Some men were busy killing fowls, ducks, geese and pigs and getting anything that was useful. It was good sport, but hard for the women and children. After all had been destroyed we returned to the remainder of the Battalion and shared all the loot equally among the company.
In addition to the twenty head of poultry, we also drove seventy head of cattle and horses back to camp. This was the best day’s sport we had, but our blankets didn’t arrive until about 1:00 am as all our luggage had been kept well in the rear.”

British medic bringing in some Turkey

Transport to the camp

British mounted soldier (The horse seems in very poor condition)

Top to bottom William Skeoch Cumming, Ogston, McLearn and Cub, all of the 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders at a piquet at Belfast

Troops of one of the British mounted regiments watering their horses while on patrol. They are probably servicemen of the Lothians and Berwickshire Yeomanry

Drummer boy of the 5th Fusiliers