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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131127090736/http://www.ladysmithhistory.com/a-to-z/indians/indians-in-the-boer-war/ Indian Army units in the Boer War]  from  "Ladysmith History & The Boer War", now an archived website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131127090736/http://www.ladysmithhistory.com/a-to-z/indians/indians-in-the-boer-war/ Indian Army units in the Boer War]  from  "Ladysmith History & The Boer War", now an archived website.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/16091 ''Martial law in the Cape Colony, during 1901''] by Frederic MacKarness 1902. Link to a pdf download Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin_r2s8/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Defence of Duffer's Drift''] by Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton with a foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell 1949 reprint, first published 1904. [https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin/mode/2up 1986 edition] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24842 Gutenberg.org 1905 USA edition] A book on  small unit tactics. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defence_of_Duffer%27s_Drift Wikipedia article].
*[https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin_r2s8/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Defence of Duffer's Drift''] by Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton with a foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell 1949 reprint, first published 1904. [https://archive.org/details/defenceofduffers0000swin/mode/2up 1986 edition] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24842 Gutenberg.org 1905 USA edition] A book on  small unit tactics. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defence_of_Duffer%27s_Drift Wikipedia article].



Revision as of 05:00, 15 December 2021

Anglo Boer War 1899-1902

Also see

Records

findmypast introduced, in March 2017, the database "Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902"[1], compiled from multiple sources. Elsewhere, this is stated to be based on a register compiled by military researcher Meurig Jones over a period of 25 years.

External links

  • Anglo Boer War.com
    • Select Unit information/Indian and Ceylon units
    • Select Forum- Main Forum- Medals and awards- Indian Contingent, for information about the Indian troops sent to South Africa, and the medals awarded.
  • Military History Journal, South African Military History Society has many online articles about the Boer War. Journals are online from Vol 1 No 1 December 1967, excluding the issues from the most recent years.
    • This article[2] briefly states that "in South Africa [2nd Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902] there were a large number of officers and natives lent by India" and favourably mentions the Indian Military Accounts Department
  • Indian Army units in the Boer War from "Ladysmith History & The Boer War", now an archived website.

Historical books online

References

  1. Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902 findmypast
  2. "Lieutenant-Colonel Seton Churchill and the financial lessons of the African campaigns, 1879-1902" by J Black Military History Journal Volume 14 No 1 - June 2007 South African Military History Society