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ACTUALITY. City Imperial Volunteers, carrying rifles and equipment, clamber up the gangway of a troopship at the foot of which ...
RECONSTRUCTION. Faked Boer War incident.
View from behind the "Boer" position as they fire with rifles and a small cannon against ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Scots' Guards march through the market place in Bloemfontain.
Foot soldiers carrying pick-axes or rifles march (R-L) past ...
Footage of Kruger leaving the Hotel De Ville in Paris, late in 1900.
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Covered wagons drawn by mules, each flying the Red Cross flag, fording the Vaal river (13ft).
Note: Filmed ...
ACTUALITY. Boer War. Two scenes.
Long shot of soliders digging under the supervision of officers (26). An armoured train, going in ...
FARCE: The Boer War: Ex-con Private Doubleday saves the life of Major Pyke and is recommended for the VC. Instead, ...
Main title. The long funeral procession of Sir George White moves along a road lined with people (69ft).
African labourers excavating a clearing, with railway tracks in the background. The Africans may be Zulus (94ft).
ACTUALITY. General Sir Redvers Buller leaving to head the British Army at the start of the Boer War, 14 October ...
ACTUALITY. Boer WAr. A procession of ox-drawn wagons passing down a trail over a hill towards the camera; the oxen ...
ACTUALITY. Boer war. Single shot of a column of Gordon Highlanders marching out of their camp at Ladysmith to meet ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. A procession of troops, led by pipers, marches in front of the camera. Taken at Union Terrace, ...
"H.M.S. Powerful arriving in Portsmouth Harbour, bringing home the heroes of Ladysmith". Shot of the four-funnelled cruiser steaming in to ...
ACTUALITY. Military parade.
A naval detachment, including Marines, from H.M.S. `Powerful', marching through London prior to a review by the Prince ...
Main title. "Pretoria: decorating the graves of British soldiers killed in the war." MCS women moving amongst the graves and ...
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. A Zulu crouches on all fours and ...
No title. A decorated street with banners carrying the words `Upholders of the Empire', `Welcome Home', with a railway station ...
British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900.
The film depends ...
ACTUALITY. Single shot. Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.
A long double line of naval ratings hauling ...
Main Title. The service being conducted by the Right Reverend Francis James Chavasse, Lord Bishop of Liverpool, in the open ...
ACTUALITY. A column of Lancers fording the Modder River, which has steep banks on either side, during the Boer War.
Note: ...
Members of the 'Savage South Africa' troupe at Southampton Docks.
The film shows a group of Africans (Zulus) in full tribal ...
The funeral of Christian de Wet, Boer guerilla leader and politician in South Africa (61ft).