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Based on real life events, the film takes place during the guerrilla phase of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Three officers ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Native drivers and British soldiers stand by the bank of the river urging on the long teams ...
A dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two Boers sneaking up ...
No titles. Shots from the same camera viewpoint showing horse-drawn traffic and pedestrians and an electric tram arriving at an ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War: hauled by a long mule train a four-wheeled cart with three British soldiers seated at the rear ...
ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town to head the British army during the Boer War.
A small contingent of soldiers ...
No titles. The Boer generals, Louis Botha, Jacobus Delarey and Christian De Wet walk down the gangplank from the liner ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War wounded being taken onto a hospital ship.
A continuous line of sick and wounded British soldiers being carried ...
ACTUALITY. Men in pith helmets on horseback ford a river and climb the bank. MCU men driving carts pulled by ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Australian cavalry riding down Adderley Street, Cape Town, watched by enthusiastic crowds (90ft).
Note: Filmed by Edgar ...
"BACK FROM THE BOER WAR. The 12th Lancers disembark from the transport "German" in the East India Docks, the last ...
"BACK FROM THE BOER WAR! The 12th Lancers, who are the last to return home from South Africa, disembarking." (11). ...