At the beginning of the Boer War the strength of this corps was three officers and eighty-nine other ranks. They ...
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The 2nd Battalion fought in the Boer War (1899-1902). They sailed on the Britannic about 7th January 1900, arriving about ...
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The 2nd Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway) Volunteer Corps was formed in 1887 of employees of the locomotive department of the ...
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The 6th Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army that was sent to South Africa in November ...
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The 1st Battalion sailed on the Cephalonia on 24th October 1899, arrived at the Cape about 18th November, and was ...
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The 2nd Battalion arrived at the Cape on 3rd April. Along with the 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd Scots Guards, and ...
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The Gordon Highlanders were officially formed in 1881 when two Scottish Regiments the 75th and 92nd were amalgamated during the ...
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The 2nd Battalion were heavily engaged at Biddulphsberg, where British artillery had set fire to four foot high grass, which ...
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The Imperial Yeomanry was a British volunteer cavalry regiment created on 24 December 1899. The first contingent of recruits contained ...
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The 14th (King's) Hussars fought in the Boer War (1899-1902) taking part in the Relief of Kimberley (1900) and several other operations. The Regiment ...
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In December 1899 the second battalion embarked for the war in South Africa. They fought at Spion Kop, the Relief ...
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From November 1901 the regiment was on anti-guerrilla operations during the Boer War. The names of the men who served ...
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The 2nd Battalion was sent to the Boer War in December 1899, fighting throughout the conflict. This included the engagements ...
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The Regiment served during the Second Boer War (1899–1902). Its men fought at Spion Kop and the Relief of Ladysmith ...
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The whole regiment deployed to the Boer War (1899-1902) in 1899, where its 'C' Squadron took part in the charge ...
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In 1897 the 1st battalion were stationed in the West Indies and then transferred to Cape Colony, South Africa. Prior ...
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The 1st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment left its base at Gibraltar in August 1899, landing at Durban in the ...
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This regiment was formed as The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment during the 1881 Army reforms by merging the ...
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The 1st Battalion sailed in the beginning of October 1899, and being early on the scene, was employed on garrison ...
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Until 1898 the Medical Staff Corps and the Medical Staff were two separate organisations. They were reorganised into one Corps, ...
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The Royal Army Service Corps was responsible for supply and transport and it was their role to keep the army ...
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The Royal Field Artillery in the Boer War faced a series of problems that it had largely not encountered before ...
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This unit was raised in 1661, making it one of the oldest cavalry regiments in British Army history. The Royal ...
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During the Boer War the Royal Engineers were constantly in the thick of the fighting. Half of the 37th company ...
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This unit became the city regiment for London in the 1881 Army reorganisation. The 2nd Battalion served in the Boer ...
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This cavalry regiment has had a number of different names since its formation in 1660. It was renamed The Royal ...
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Created in 1881 by the amalgamation of two former East India Company regiments and consisted of two battalions. It was ...
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During the Boer War the Royal Navy were not involved in ship-to-ship action but provided naval brigades, consisting of seamen ...
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Until 1881 this regiment was known as The Royal Welch Fusiliers. It recruited mainly from Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire and ...
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The 1st Battalion left Southampton in the Nubia on 22 October and arrived in Cape Town just over three weeks ...
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These units comprised of British supporters who fought in colonial regiments raised locally in South Africa. Also men from the ...
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The South Lancashire Regiment served during the Second Boer War (1899-1902) and fought at the Battle of Spion Kop, Tugela ...
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The 1st Battalion sailed on the Aurania on 18th March 1900, and arrived at the Cape about 9th April. The ...
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The 2nd Battalion sailed on the Bavarian about 18th January 1900, and arrived in South Africa early in February. Along ...
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In 1881 the 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment was amalgamated with the 76th Regiment.  The newly formed Regiment became The ...
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The 1st Battalion sailed on the Majestic about 13th December 1900, arrived at the Cape about the 30th, and was ...
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