The board for this Boer War game, with its counter-clockwise trail is attractively illustrated. It shows an Australian stockman mustering cattle, a mounted troop riding to the embarkation, watched by a number of onlookers, the transport ship SS Medic accompanied from the port by a large flotilla of yachts, and a battle scene. There are also scenes of a field hospital, and a field prison. A

Along the game the player undergoes a riding test, which he may fail, is supplied with a uniform, receives promotion, is wounded, has his horse killed from under him or is taken prisoner. The game concludes with the Union flag flying proudly over the Parliament buildings.

Holden, Robert Race to the finish: an exhibition of Australian children's board games from colonial times to the present day Manly, N.S.W.: Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 1986

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South Australians at war [State Library of South Australia]

Australian War Memorialsee : Encyclopedia: Australia and the Boer War

Children's Literature Research Collection State Library of South Australia