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Pages in category "British prisoners of war of the Second Boer War" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Second Boer War prisoners of war (2 C, 1 P) F. ... 19th-century prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government (1 C, 5 P) W. War of 1812 prisoners of ...
During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic, Orange Free State, Natal, and the Cape Colony. In February 1900, Herbert Kitchener took command of the British forces and implemented some controversial tactics that contributed to a British victory. [3]
During the Second Boer War, the British government established prisoner-of-war camps (to hold captured Boer belligerents or fighters) and concentration camps (to hold Boer civilians). In total, six prisoner-of-war camps were erected in South Africa and around 31 in overseas British colonies to hold Boer prisoners of war. [7]
The 1980 film Breaker Morant portrays the unit in which Australian Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock were serving when they were court martialed.They were executed on 27 February 1902 by a firing squad of Cameron Highlanders, having been convicted by the British army of murdering a civilian and Boer prisoners of war.
Pages in category "Second Boer War prisoners of war held by the United Kingdom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Later, units were assigned to British formations in the field, and one was detailed to escort Boer prisoners of war to Saint Helena and Ceylon. For a few months in 1900, a Colonial Division, consisting of the Cape Mounted Riflemen and several volunteer units under Brig Gen Edward Brabant, served with the British forces in the Orange Free State.
The East Kent Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment) was an auxiliary [a] regiment raised in Kent in South East England.From its formal creation in 1760 the regiment served in home and colonial defence in all of Britain's major wars until 1918, seeing active service in the Second Boer War and supplying thousands of reinforcements to the Buffs during World War I.