Soldiers leaving for the Boer War : two views |
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Title : | Soldiers leaving for the Boer War : two views |
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Source : | Murray family, PRG 11/2 (originals withdrawn) | ||
Date of creation : | ca. 1900 | ||
Format : | Photograph | ||
Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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Description : |
Two photographs of a large contingent of soldiers about to leave for the Boer War marching down a street in Adelaide with crowds of onlookers watching the parade. The photographs are taken from the front and rear of the parade. |
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Period : | 1884-1913 |
Region : | Adelaide city |
Further reading : | Austin, Ronald J. The Australian illustrated encyclopedia of the Zulu and Boer wars, McCrae, Vic. : Slouch Hat Publications, c1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial History Conference, (1999 : Canberra, A.C.T.). The Boer War : army, nation and empire / the 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference ; edited by Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, Canberra : Dept. of Defence, Army History Unit, 2000 Field, L. M. The forgotten war : Australia and the Boer War, Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1995 Haydon, AP. 'South Australia's first war', Historical studies, Australia and New Zealand, vol. 11, no. 42 (April 1964), p. 222-233 Wallace, Robert L. The Australians at the Boer War, Canberra : Australian War Memorial [and] Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976 Wilcox, Craig. Australia's Boer War : the war in South Africa, 1899-1902, South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press in association with the Australian War Memorial, 2002 |
Internet links : | Australian Light Horse Association Events of 1901: The South African War [National Archives, UK] Landforces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth See: Wars: Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 Queenslanders in the South African War, 1899 - 1902 [State Library of Queensland] Queenslanders on the Veldt : A Virtual Exhibition [State Library of Queensland] |