Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa

Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa
Author: P. L. Murray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2007-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781845743956

Reprint of the original Australian Government 1911 official publication containing an astonishing amount of information on the activities of the contingents from all over Australia during the Boer War with many nominal rolls, plus details of equipment, pay, honours and awards. Australia s contribution to the war, as this volume makes clear in minute detail, was a major one, presaging its massive sacrifice a decade later in the Great War. As its author emphasises, this book is not a history of the war, but a statistical register and reference. As such it will prove invaluable to serious students. It does, however, also include descriptions of actions in which Australian units took part, and will prove absorbing to anyone who wishes to know the reality of Australia s part in the war behind legends such as that of Breaker Morant .

Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa (Classic Reprint)

Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa (Classic Reprint)
Author: P. L. Murray
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780428855178

Excerpt from Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa The third (imperial Draft) went on 17th March, 1901, there being 5 officers. 48 other ranks, with 54 horses and 2 ambulance wagons. Three were struck off the strength in South Africa 5 officers and 45 others returned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Century of Postgraduate Anglo Boer War (1988-1902) Studies

A Century of Postgraduate Anglo Boer War (1988-1902) Studies
Author: André Wessels
Publisher: UJ Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 192038216X

This study provides students, historians, other academics and scholars, as well as other researchers and anyone interested in the history of the Anglo-Boer War, with as comprehensive a list as possible of all postgraduate studies completed on any conceivable aspect of the war, as well as any other postgraduate studies which refer, to some extent, to the conflict.

The Boer War

The Boer War
Author: Craig Wilcox
Publisher: Craig WIlcox
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contains a guide to researching the records of those Australians who served in the Boer War, 1899-1902.

Australia's Communities and the Boer War

Australia's Communities and the Boer War
Author: John McQuilton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319308254

This book explores an Australian regional community’s reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an ‘occasional war’ in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for reactions to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This is the first exploration of the place of the Boer War in Australian history at the community level. Indeed, even at the national level the literature is limited. It is often forgotten that, despite the claims that Australia became a federation via peaceful means, the colonies and the new nation were, in fact, at war. This study aims to bring back into focus a forgotten part of Australian and imperial history, and argues that the Australian experience of the Boer War was more than the execution of Morant and Hancock.