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Anglo Boer War 

Trenches Trenches at Magersfontein.  Some months after the battle, after being reinforced with sand bags Caring for wounded after the battle Type of breastwork used at Magersfontein

Post-battle trench photograph Wedburg Town Guard Boers Scout McLaughlin & despatch runners

British  Captured Boer spies, taken at Chieveley in Natal  British troops, including Black drivers, at Modder River

Scouts, Lt. Loch - Staff of Intelligence Department    Health inspection    Plan of Kimberley & Environs during the Siege

Signaling staff, Kimberley

The Field Telephone:  Communicating with the base in Belmont  Signallers of the Gordon Highlanders "brewing up" for tea 

Ladysmith: Observation Balloon   Observation balloon

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British Officers

Colonel Gemon, Comdg 5th R.D.Fus. An idle afternoon, Droonfield Camp, SA, 1 June 1900  O.C. Gordon Highlanders, DOW at Magersfontein  Captain A.S. Wingate, 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders  Major G.L.S. Ray, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers

Lord Roberts   Lord Roberts (mounted) & member of Naval Brigrade (straw hat)   Sir Charles Warren at Fort Richmond  Interior Officers Mess, 3rd S.W.B. Warrenton, SA, 1900

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Memorials

Honoured Dead Memorial.  Erected to those who lost their lives in the Kimberley Siege   1914-1919 & 1939-1945 War Memorial, Dutoitspan Road, Kimberley   1914-1919 & 1939-1945 War Memorial, Dutoitspan Road, Kimberley

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