The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of 287 (Private) Pte Alfred James Showers, C Squadron, 4th Victorian Imperial Contingent sitting on his horse in front of stables, wearing a bandolier and holding a Lee-Metford or Lee-Enfield rifle. A man in a suit is holding the reigns of the horse and a young boy and a soldier smoking a pipe are standing behind watching. Pte Showers was promoted to Lance Corporal during the war and served in the Cape Colony, Transvaal and Rhodesia. He received the Queen's South Africa medal with three clasps.
Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps' CAPE COLONY',' RHODESIA', 'ORANGE FREE STATE', 'TRANSVAAL', 'SOUTH AFRICA 1901' AND 'SOUTH AFRICA 1902'. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. 297 T
A party of Boer marksmen posing for a photograph during the siege in the Orange Free State. The soldier standing in the foreground is holding a British Lee-Metford/Lee-Enfield .303 rifle. Most other
MAFEKING, SOUTH AFRICA, C. 1900. THREE OF THE DEFENDING FORCE WHO ACTED AS RECONNAISSANCE SCOUTS. EACH HAS A LEE-METFORD RIFLE AND BANDOLIER. (DONOR C. BOOTH)
Buffels Hoek, in the western Transvaal north-east of Mafeking. Lieutenant Tom Parkin (left) with an unidentified soldier in camp. Another soldier tends horses in the background. Parkin was an offic
Three Australian bushmen pose in front of a wooden-sided railway freight wagon. They are holding either Lee-Enfield or Lee-Metford .303 calibre rifles ("long toms"). These rifles were standard issue
Fourth page of the sketchbook titled, 'Pocket Book No 2 containing 18 notes, material & pictures,' which was used by George Lambert. A sketch of a soldier squatting on the ground smoking a pipe appear