- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Jan Smuts
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (May 24, 1870 - September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader, and philosopher. In addition to various cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served as a British Field Marshal in both the First World War and the Second World War. - Louis Botha
Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state. He became a member of the parliament of Transvaal in 1897, representing the district of Vryheid. Two years later Botha fought in the Second Boer War, initially under Lucas Meyer in Northern Natal, and later as a general commanding and fighting with impressive capability at Colenso and Spion kop. - Breaker Morant
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, and soldier whose renowned skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker." Articulate, intelligent, and well educated, he was also a published poet and became one of the better-known "back-block bards" of the 1890s, with the bulk of his work appearing in "The Bulletin" magazine. - Piet Cronje
General Piet Arnoldus Cronje ('KRON-year') (4 October 1836 -4 February 1911) was a leader of the Zuid Afrika Republic's military forces during the Anglo-Boer wars. Born in Transvaal, Cronje made his reputation in the First Boer War, besieging the British garrison at Potchefstroom. He had a distinctive appearance, being short with a black beard and was reputed to have considerable personal courage. - Koos de la Rey
Koos de la Rey (Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey) (22 October 1847 - 15 September 1914) was a Boer general during the Second Boer War and is widely regarded as being one of the greatest military leaders during that conflict. He is generally regarded as the most powerful and unyielding of the Boer generals during the Second Boer War and as one of the leading figures of Afrikaner nationalism. As a guerrilla, his tactics proved extremely successful. - Emily Hobhouse
Emily Hobhouse (April 9, 1860-June 8, 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, who is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the appalling conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War. - Christiaan de Wet
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (7 October 1854 - 5 February 1922) was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician. He was born on the farm Leeuwkop, in the district of Smithfield in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State and later resided at Dewetsdorp, the latter which was named after his father, Jacobus Ignatius de Wet. He served in the first Anglo-Boer War of 1880-81 as a Field Cornet, taking part in the Battle of Majuba Mountain, … - Robert Baden-Powell 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 - 8 January 1941), also known as B-P, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement. After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, … - John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". - Siener van Rensburg
Nicolaas Pieter Johannes "Siener" van Rensburg (August 30, 1862 - March 11, 1926) was a Boer from the South African Republic -also known as the Transvaal Republic- and later a citizen of South Africa who is seen by some as a prophet of the Boere (or Afrikaners). Therefore his nickname soon became Siener, which is Afrikaans for "seer" or "soothsayer". His seemingly accurate predictions of future events were typically wrapped in religious patriotism. - Deneys Reitz
Deneys Reitz (1882-1944) was a Boer Commando, South African soldier and politician. While still in his teens, Deneys Reitz served in the Boer forces during the Second Boer War. As a commando he fought in both the first conventional phase of the war and the second guerrilla phase. In the latter he accompanied Jan Smuts on raids deep into the Cape Province, he continued to fight to the "bitter end", … - Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As an American, he had the unique opportunity to see the war first-hand from both the English and Boer perspectives. - Martinus Theunis Steyn
Martinus (or Marthinus) Theunis Steyn (October 2, 1857 - 1916) was a South African politician, last president of the Orange Free State. He was born at Winburg, OFS. He studied in the Netherlands and later in England at the Inner Temple, and was called to the English bar in November 1882. After his return to South Africa he practised as a barrister at Bloemfontein, and in 1889 was appointed state attorney of the Free State. - Henri Bourassa
Joseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. Born in Montreal, Quebec, to Napoléon and Marie Bourassa, Henri Bourassa was a grandson of the pro-democracy reformist politician Louis-Joseph Papineau. He was educated at Montreal's "École polytechnique" and at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1890, he became mayor of the town of Montebello, Quebec, at age 22. In 1896, … - Hugh Grosvenor 2nd Duke of Westminster
Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, GCVO DSO (familiarly "Bendor") (19 March 1879 - 19 July 1953) was the son of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor and a grandson of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. After succeeding his grandfather as Duke of Westminster in 1899, he served in the Second Boer War until 1901, as an ADC to Lord Roberts and Lord Milner. He subsequently invested in land in South Africa and Rhodesia. - Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD (January 16, 1851 – October 12, 1947) was a general in the British Army and is most notably known for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli. Hamilton's military career began in 1871 and he served in India and Africa. He was Chief of Staff to Lord Kitchener during the Second Boer War and was knighted in 1902. - John MacBride
Major John MacBride (sometimes mistranscribed as McBride) (7 May 1865 - 5 May 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his leading role in the 1916 Easter Rising. John MacBride was born was born at The Quay, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland to Patrick MacBride, a shopkeeper and trader, and the former Honoria Gill, who survived her son. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Westport and at St. Malachy's College, Belfast. - James Paris Lee
James Paris Lee was a Scottish-Canadian - American inventor and arms designer, best known for inventing the bolt action that led to the Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield series of rifles. Born in Hawick, Scotland the Lee family emigrated to Cambridge, Ontario in Canada c.1835 when James was 4. He built his first gun at the age of 12, using an old horse-pistol barrel, a newly carved walnut stock, and a priming pan made from a halfpenny. - Frederick Ponsonby 1st Baron Sysonby
Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby GCB GCVO PC (16 September 1867-20 October 1935), was a British soldier and courtier. Ponsonby was the second son of General Sir Henry Ponsonby and his wife the Hon. Mary Elizabeth (née Bulteel). A member of a junior branch of the Ponsonby family, he was the grandson of General Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby and the great-grandson of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough. - Henry Hughes Wilson
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO, (May 5 1864 – June 22 1922) was a British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician. Wilson was killed by the Irish Republican Army in 1922. Wilson was born in Currygrane, Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland and was the second son of James and Constance Wilson, of Currygrane. - Jean-Baptiste Sipido
Jean-Baptiste Victor Sipido (20 December 1884 - 20 August 1959) was a Belgian socialist who became known when he, then a young tinsmith's apprentice, attempted to assassinate the Prince of Wales at the Brussel-Nord railway station in Brussels on April 5, 1900. Accusing the Prince of causing the slaughter of thousands during the Boer War in South Africa, the fifteen-year-old leaped onto the foot board of the royal compartment right before the train left the station, … - Alexander Godley
General Sir Alexander Godley KCB, KCMG (1867-1957) was a First World War general, best known for his role as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and British XXII Corps, although he was also Commander of the New Zealand Defence Force, and had been in 1910, when he was appointed on the advice of Lord Kitchener. During the Battle of Gallipoli he commanded the New Zealand and Australian Division. Alexander Godley was born in Kent, England, on 4 February 1867, … - John X. Merriman
John Xavier Merriman (1841 - 1926) was the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of South Africa in 1910. He was born in Street, Somerset, England. His parents were Nathaniel James Merriman, Curator of the parish of Street and later third Bishop of Grahamstown, and the former Julia Potter. He emigrated to the Cape Colony with his parents in 1849, aged 8. He was educated at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch, Cape Town, … - Lionel Curtis
Lionel Curtis (1872-1955) British official and author who advocated British Empire Federalism and, late in life, a world state. His ideas concerning dyarchy were important in the development of the Government of India Act 1919 and more generally, his writings influenced the evolution of the Commonwealth of Nations. Curtis was educated at Haileybury College and then at University of Oxford subsequently becoming a lawyer. - Edward Grey 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon KG, 3rd Bt, PC (25 April 1862 - 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey was a British politician and ornithologist. Grey was the eldest of the seven children of Colonel George Henry Grey and Harriet Jane Pearson, daughter of Charles Pearson. His grandfather Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, of Fallodon, was also a prominent Liberal politician, while his great-grandfather Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet, … - Abraham Fischer
Abraham Fischer (1850 - 1913) was the sole Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in South Africa. He was originally a lawyer in Cape Colony, joining the bar in 1875. He became vice-president of the Orange Free State's "volksraad" in 1893 and a member of the executive council in 1896. During the Boer War he went to Europe to solicit support for the Boers, returning in 1903 to practice law in the newly-formed Orange River Colony. - Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier McLaglen (December 10, 1886 - November 7,1959) was a British-born boxer and Academy Award winning actor, who later became a naturalized American citizen. - Beyers Naudé
Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé was an Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist picture. - Edward Brabant
Major-General Sir Edward Brabant KCB was a South African colonial military commander. He served in the 9th Frontier War (1877-1878) and other campaigns. During the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), he commanded the Colonial Division in 1900, and the Colonial Defence Force in 1901. He was knighted for his services. After the war, he served as Commandant-General of the Cape Colonial Forces (1903-1904). - Victor Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, KG GCSI, GCIE, PC (16 May 1849 – 18 January 1917) was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899. Lord Bruce (as he was known until his father's death in 1863) was born in Montreal, while his father was serving as Governor-General of Canada. Educated at Glenalmond, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Elgin entered politics as a Liberal, … - Arnold Theiler
Sir Arnold Theiler (March 26, 1867 - July 24, 1936) the father of veterinary science in South Africa. Born in Frick, Canton Argau, Switzerland. He received his higher education, and later qualified as a veterinarian in Zurich. In 1891 Theiler travelled to South Africa and at first found employment as a farm worker on Irene Estates near Pretoria, owned by Nellmapius, but later that year started practising as a vet. - Francis William Reitz
Francis William Reitz (b. Swellendam, 5 October 1844; d. Cape Town, 27 March 1934) was a Boer politician at the time of the Second Boer War. He studied in Britain and although admitted to the Cape bar in 1868, he set off diamond digging. Unsuccessful, he returned to practise law and in 1872 was elected to the Cape Parliament. Two years later, at the request of President Jan Brand, … - Edward Hutton
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, KCB, KCMG (1848–1923) was a British born, Canadian military commander from 1898–1901. Previous to his Canadian experience, Hutton served in New South Wales from 1893–1896. Able, energetic, with a keen sense of publicity, Hutton delivered whirlwind of speeches, receptions, and inspections. He surveyed his command and proclaimed as his slogan, a "National Army" for Canada. - David Henderson
Lieutenant General Sir David Henderson KCB KCVO DSO (1862 - 1921) was an officer in the British Army in the later part of the 19th century and early 20th century. Notably, he was the first commander of the Royal Flying Corps in the field and was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force as an independent service. Following officer training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Henderson was commissioned into the British Army on 25 August 1882. - George Frederick Ives
George Frederick Ives (November 17, 1881 - April 12, 1993) was the last surviving veteran of the Boer War. Born in England, he fought for the British in South Africa. He later migrated to Canada, where he died at the age of 111. - Aylmer Hunter-Weston
Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ (23 September 1864 - 18 March 1940) was a British Army general who served in the First World War. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1884 he served on the Indian North West Frontier and took part in the Miranzai Expedition of 1891 and was wounded during the Warziristan Expedition of 1894-1895. During this time he was promoted to brevet major. He was on General Herbert Kitchener's staff in 1896. - Donald Cameron
Donald Cameron (19 January 1878 - 20 August 1962), Australian politician, was born in Melbourne of working-class parents. He was educated in state schools and served in the Australian Army in the Boer War. He settled in Western Australia where he worked as a plumber and became an official of the plumbers' union and later secretary of the Trades Hall. Returning to Melbourne in 1919 he became active in the Victorian Socialist Party, a Marxist party. - Thompson Capper
Major-General Sir Thompson Capper, KCMG, CB, DSO (20 October, 1863 - 27 September, 1915) was a highly decorated and senior British Army officer who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and was a divisional commander during the First World War. At the battle of Loos in 1915, Capper was shot by a sniper as he reconnoitered the front line during an assault by his division on German positions. - James Stevenson-Hamilton
Major James Stevenson-Hamilton (October 2 1867 - December 10 1957) born in Ireland was the eldest of 9 children and heir to a family title and home at Fairholm, by Larkhall in Scotland. He is considered the father of the Kruger National Park, in South Africa. James Stevenson-Hamilton accepted a British Army posting as warden of what was then the Sabie Nature Reserve in 1902 after the Second Boer War. When he retired from the position in 1946, …
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