Drama tracing the life of a crusty old man of World War II to his military beginnings as a dashing ...

The daughter of an army captain is degraded into a servant when her father is lost, but she refuses to ...

Lord Kitchener on his return from the Boer War, inspects troops on Southampton quayside. Amongst his aides are Generals John ...

ACTUALITY. Boer War. Ceremonies on the occasion of the raising of the Union Jack at Pretoria, 5 June 1900.

Long shot ...

ACTUALITY. Lord Roberts leaving to take over control of the British Army in South Africa fighting the Boer War.

Lord Roberts, ...

No main title. Lord Frederick Roberts passes in an open carriage. He reviews the veterans of the Boer War (46ft). ...

A 4.7-inch naval gun being drawn across the drift by ox-teams. As the gun descends the steep embankment, it is ...

ACTUALITY. Single shot. British naval ratings firing a 4.7" naval gun, during the Boer War, probably 14 December 1899.

Close shot ...

Traces the life of a Boer leader, Kruger.

An ox wagon passes before the camera at some distance; another passes at closer range; a caravan of ox wagons, ...

ACTUALITY. Boer War. 'Phantom ride' taken from a moving train (moving right to left) showing the British encampment at Frere, ...

ACTUALITY. Long shot of President Kruger.

A long shot of Kruger leaving his residence to be driven off to the Volksraad. ...

A pantomime on the Boer War in the form of a boxing match between men dressed as John Bull and ...

RECONSTRUCTION. Boer War(?)

A battlefield, with cannons and wounded soldiers, is filmed from behind the British line(?) A horse-drawn ambulance arrives ...

ACTUALITY. Single shot. British officers (Royal Engineers) supervising repair work on a bridge at Frere, spanning the Blaauw Krantz River, ...

DRMA. A man is seen at home with his wife and children, when he receives a summons to hold himself ...

ACTUALITY. Military parade.

A naval detachment, including Marines, headed by a military band and watched by cheering crowds, passes down the ...

ACTUALITY. Queen Victoria reviews the Life Guards at Spital Barracks.

Queen Victoria, seated in her carriage with her back to the ...

ACTUALITY. Single shot. Signalling from a British trench during the Boer war.

MCU British soldiers lined up along trenches aiming their ...

ACTUALITY. A reconstruction "as performed in the Empress Theatre, 'Greater Britain Exhibition', Earls Court" by Mr Frank E. Fillis's troupe ...

DRAMA. A "faked" newsfilm representing an incident in the Boer War.

A nurse is seen receiving wounded British soldiers at a ...

View from stern of moving ship shows a faster-moving vessel, with masts and a funnel, approaching then overtaking on the ...

ACTUALITY. Crowds around the entrance to the London Hippodrome awaiting the departure of Sir George White, the hero of Ladysmith ...

ACTUALITY. Lord Kitchener's reception at the Guildhall on the occasion of his presentation of the Freedom of the City of ...

Dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two nurses saved from the ...

ACTUALITY. A British troop exercise during the Boer War presented as genuine military action.

[THE SCOUTS IN PURSUIT OF THE BOERS] ...

DRAMA. A soldier returns to the family home but can get no reply. A neighbour emerges from her house. (Jump ...

ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long column of mounted troops fording a river (148ft).

Note: Lord Roberts took the surrender of Kroonstad ...

A steam traction engine hauling timber in a dockyard, apparently in South Africa (during the Boer War). A number of ...

The train, with engine decorated with flag and the letters "CIV" on the front, pulls out of the station; soldiers ...

ACTUALITY. Boer War. A Company of British troops, just arrived in Port Elizabeth, march from the jetty towards a square ...

ACTUALITY. Troop train passing over the Modder River during the Boer War.

A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each ...

ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long line of carts and wagons drawn by mules and oxen crosses the Vaal river - ...

DRAMA. A 'faked' newsfilm representing an incident in the Boer War.

Four gunners are seen under fire; one falls wounded as ...

Film biography of the youth of Winston Churchill.

ACTUALITY. Long distance shot of "The Bluff" nearing Durban; it sails towards the camera, turns, and passes in medium close ...

ACTUALITY. Single shot. Spectators on the quayside wave as the crowded ship moves away.

Note: The Roslin Castle left Southampton on ...