History might have forgotten Private Frank Leighton Sinclair had he not sat down to write a letter from Bloemfontein in South Africa to his brother back home in NSW's Kangaroo Valley on March 17 ...

George Ives Last Boer War veteran VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The last survivor of the Boer War, who was believed to be Canada’s oldest man, has died in British Columbia at the age of 111 ...

The Boer War, also known as the ... “Private Donegan’s parents had received no news from the front and were completely overcome when informed of their son’s death,” the newspaper account said.

Gen. Samuel Pearson of Scranton, Penn., who served in the Boer war, and Cornelius W. Van Der Hoogt, a foreign correspondent, of Baltimore and Washington, who are stopping at the Everett House ...

The war began in 1899 as a conflict between the British army and Dutch settlers - called the Boer - in South Africa. When Britain asked its colonies for help, English Canada pressured Prime ...

It was originally owned by Private Eddie Midlane, a 20-year-old who joined the 1st Battalion of the Rifles Brigade as a volunteer just before the outbreak of the Boer War in the autumn of 1899.

Like a million other South Africans, the Stoltz family was up at cockcrow one morning last week, all ready to cast its votes in the first general election since 1948. Grandpa Stoltz, 75, stumped ...

The Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire Ed Anderson unveiled a Pontefract Civic Society Blue Plaque to honor nine Yorkshire Victoria Cross recipients from the Boer War and World War I. Private ...

A box of 122-year-old chocolate bars, which were sent to troops during the Boer War, has sold for more than £400. The tin of Rowntree's chocolate, made in York in 1899, was found at a house in ...