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Citizen Soliders

South Australians at the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Anthony Stimson, Jennifer Humphries

This is the story of the 60 South Australians commemorated on Adelaide's South African War Memorial. These men, all volunteers in contingents of mounted infantry raised for service in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, enlisted for reasons including adventure, patriotism, mateship and poverty, and under overall British command fought a mobile and elusive Boer enemy.

The high veldt was a huge and challenging theatre of war with no front line like the Western Front 1914-1918. All 60 died on or as a result of wartime service. Some were killed in dawn skirmishes on isolated farms or died later of wounds. Others died from enteric fever or dysentery, more insidious killers. Two were shot dead accidentally by their mates and four died at sea. Together, their individual tales tell the story of South Australia's first major war.

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Anthony Stimson has a PhD in History from Flinders University (Adelaide) and is president of the South Australian Boer War Association, a descendants' organisation. His interest in the Anglo-Boer War started with his grandfather, Captain A.E.M. Norton (1869-1922), who commanded a squadron of mounted infantry in the 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen and was awarded a DSO for the action fought at Leeuwkop near Lindley on 3 June 1900. In 2017, with Albert and Renee Jordaan, who own the ridge, Anthony dedicated a memorial in honour of all the men who fought that day, Britons, Boers and Australians.

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Jennifer Humphries is a genealogist and family historian whose interest in the Boer War was originally sparked by reading the diary of Private Griffith Cadwallader Davies (1868-1913), her grandfather, who served in the Queensland militia before volunteering for the 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles and service in South Africa. She is secretary of South Australian Boer War Association and has published A Slideshow of the Davies Family with In-Laws and Outlaws Included (published by the author, Fairview Park, 2008).

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ISBN   9781923388512
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IMAGES   Colour image section
PAGE COUNT   526
DIMENSIONS   234 x 156 mm