Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

Afrikaner residents in Orania celebrated the popular Irish holiday St Patrick's Day on 17 March and thanked the Irish for ...

Kate made her return to the celebration in the Wellington Barracks in Westminster, where she sipped on a Guinness and was ...

A look at the day-to-day routines of soldiers assigned to guard the 8,000-odd blockhouses spanning South Africa during the ...

Combining inventive genius with shrewd sales ability, the Mauser brothers, Paul and Wilhelm launched one of the world’s most ...

All war is grisly and before World War I, there was another war, the (second) Boer War of 1899-1902, which has become a subject ... to achieve its objective of securing them for British interests. The ...

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In late August 1978 I was on a troop train bound for Grootfontein in Namibia on route to the Border War ... Boer Commandos of 1899-1902. The defence force of this time was therefore a compromise of ...

Bearley resident Derek Bull, 72, finds he can count Shakespeare and Lady Diana as distant relations as he traces his ancestry ...