The Anglo-Boer Wars

Eighty British soldiers are recorded as having escaped from captivity, from about 10,000 soldiers captured. But, only 6,000 POWs were kept f...

Family historians want to know where their ancestor fought, and medal collectors obtaining a medal to someone involved in a well known acti...

The Royal Army Medical Corps served throughout the war in every theatre. They served on the front line and at all stations back to the hospi...

The military response to the ultimatum issued by the South African Republic lay squarely with Britain. In their wisdom, the War Office, and ...

With the digitisation of records from archives ... Soldier's Effects on Ancestry is very useful aas it often gives the soldier's f...

This blog was sparked by a report on the UK ITV news  relating that in 2018 71 UK veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan had comm...

For medal collectors the Second Anglo-Boer War One offers a very rich field of choice. The Naval Brigades – the sailors of the Royal Navy wh...