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ADDITIONAL USEFUL WEB SITES FOR ANGLO-BOER WAR RESEARCH and other related topics:

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Military/BOER-War.html
The Boer War Mailing List

www.roll-of-honour.com/Boer
covers Boer War (also World Wars I & II)

www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8141/boerwar.html
Article on Boer War 1899-1901

www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/pages/boer.html
Boer War material from the National Army Museum UK

www.regiments.org/wars/medals.htm
Index of campaign medals

www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/boer_war.htm
Boer War and details of UK medals

www.afrikanercharity.org/1/
A history of the Boer people from the Boer point of view.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain.vic_boer_war.shtml
A brief history of the Boer War

www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0857166.html
A brief history of the Cape Colony

www.sahistory/org.za/pages/specialprojects/great-trek/great-trek1.htm
The story of the Great Trek

www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Transvaa_History.asp
A brief history of Transvaal

www.victoriacross.net
Victoria Cross recipients. Search under Mafeking to find details of three VCs won during that defence.

www.museumsnc.co.za/McGregor/departments/history/blacksinwar/mafsiege/mafeking.htm
Sol Plaatje's Diary - he was one of the Baralong people involved in the Siege of Mafeking

www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk
offers details regarding the Mafeking Siege Register now listing nearly 2000 names, compiled by Colin Walker. (See his articles in 'Family Tree Magazine' July and August 2004)

www.awm.gov.au/research/infosheets/served_boer.asp
Leaflet re sources for Australians who served in the Boer War

www.sfowler.force9.co.uk/page_20.htm
Boer War Records in The National Archives UK

http://users.westconnect.com.au/~ianmac/nurses.html
Victorian nurses from the colonies who served in the Boer War

www.denbighshire.gov.uk
The Denbighshire Record Office has some records of people from North Wales who served in the Boer War.

www.nationarchives.gov.uk
The National Archives UK, which has extensive holdings of Boer War material

David Biggins has a Boer War site at www.angloboerwar.com
This site currently has 2,700 pages and 1,300 photographs.

British Concentration Camps of the South African War 1900-1902
Offers searchable database of names of those held in British Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War/South African War and details of the camps at Aliwal North, Balmoral, Bethulie, Brandfort and Krugersdorp.
http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/

Compiled by Rosemary Dixon-Smith