OT - The British Boer War

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This isn't about WW 1 / 2 but I thought this would be a good a place as any to put this.

I collect the odd old book and have come by the book: South Africa & The British Boer War - Vol # 1, by Hopkins & Halstead in the year 1900.

The interesting thing is it has in the back a list of Canadian Contingents in South Africa which lists all the personal
within these contingents and so on.

Should anyone out there have a past family member / friend that served in this war need some info. / confirmation
as to unit etc. I will look for the info. on these folks / anything else of interest to someone.

Interesting book, some 450 pages including pics. - I'll just have to read this one.

--- John303.

I have the same one. Gives you quite a different perspective from the usual cliches about those wars. Basically the British handled the Boers with kid gloves for so long the Boers came to believe the British only used kid gloves. They weren't the only ones to make that mistake.