Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young ...

The Second Boer War began in 1899 in the south of Africa ... During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit young men to recruit as soldiers. Before men could ...