John Norris looks at a mainstay of the British Army in WWI; the 18-Pounder field gun ...

The Spion Kop anniversary underlines the potential of heritage sites to create jobs and foster cultural and economic growth ...

For more than a century The Honoured Dead Memorial stood strong reminding the people of Kimberley—and visitors from all over—of the hardships their city once endured. At the heart of Kimberley, where ...

To this day, when I remember my grandfather's funeral - now exactly 60 years ago - the hairs still stand up on the back of my ...

Winston Churchill, war correspondent. Winston Churchill ... he asked his superior to use the artillery to soften-up the Boer gun positions on Tabanyama Hill, but Buller refused. Leading the attack on ...

The gun is now in its fourth iteration ... as the Chief of Scouts for the British Army in South Africa during the Boer War, and who was also the inspiration for the worldwide Boy Scout movement ...

In brutal contrast, the war opened with one of the greatest disasters ... is promptly pounced on by Adendorff, a Boer: "What the hell do you mean, 'cowardly blacks'? They died on your side ...

The Boer Republics declared war on Britain on 11 October 1899 and ... Churchill authorised Britain's nuclear weapons programme in 1954 and his final major speech to the House of Commons in 1955 ...

Ryrie managed a grazing property, married in 1896, and served in the Boer War with the 6th New ... to keep their weapons for defense against hostile Arabs. Ryrie was not promoted during the war ...

Back in the mid to late 1980s, the struggle against apartheid intensified on many fronts and it was becoming clearer with each passing day ...

At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young Canadian men. And for the nation it was an opportunity to show the world ...