Faction: The British Army The First World War At the start of the 20th century the British Army was a small body of volunteer regulars. The Boer War had provoked British war minister Richard ...

Haunting 120-year-old photographs taken by a Boer War soldier reveals the brutal battlegrounds where 22,000 British soldiers were killed. Remarkable photographs include prints of slain Boers, a ...

Chocolate commissioned by Queen Victoria 121 years ago has been found in its original packaging in a Boer War helmet case in Norfolk, eastern England. British confectionery giants Cadbury, Fry and ...

Adrian Carton de Wiart first saw combat with the British Army during the Boer War in South Africa from 1899 to 1902. (Wikimedia Commons) Strong of mind and body -- he once ripped apart a deck of ...

Noted British historian Spencer Jones takes a look at how disaster in the field during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) transformed the British Army. The late Victorian Army had amassed ...

Although in some armies, notably the British Army, the metal helmet had been relegated to parades and ceremonial duties, the fact is that the nations of Germany, Russia, and France fielded cavalry ...

Dubbed the “pith helmet,” it was one of the most iconic forms of headdress of the Victorian Age.From its development in India to the Anglo-Boer War it was very much a symbol of the British ...