The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Handwritten notebook (missing cover), relating to the service of an unknown soldier in the war of South Africa (Boer War). The name "1824 Trooper J Braddock, E Squadron, 3rd Regiment, NSW Mounted Rifles" appears inside the book, but it is not known if he was the writer, or just one of the several other men referred to. Other names include: Trooper Ellwood, Trooper Jones, 2504 Trooper Alfred Patrick Gormeley and 1652 Trooper Harry Montgomery. The diary contains brief entries related to service activities; a poem and anecdote; lists of places and military camps; and individual names and some addresses. Piet Joubert, the Boer Commander is also mentioned albeit as 'Jubburt'.
3 NSW Mounted Rifles arrived in South Africa in April 1901. From May until the end of the war their actviities were focussed in the north-east of the Orange River Colony, serving in the column of Colonel M F Rimmington. They entrained for Cape Town in late April 1902 for embarkation to Australia.
Group portrait including Joubert, Paul Krueger and Piet Cronje. Boer war and related photographs from the collection of Professor Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff, a geologist who went from Holland
Collection relating to the South African (Boer) War service of 1546 Private George Ernest Bunting, 5 Victorian Mounted Rifles, South Africa, 1902. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a notebook Bunting maint
Boer War Christmas greeting and gift. It comprises a patch of khaki fabric with a drawing of crossed flags and the inscription 'BOER WAR 1901 S.A', and a greeting written on a piece of paper which rea
Collection relating to 3630 Trooper Henry Crane, 3 New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Boer War. Collection comprises three letters written by Crane to his friend describing his service experiences, June
Service papers and related documents (1901 - 1967) of Trooper Culshaw who served in the NSW Mounted Rifles during the Boer War. Later records relate to his long service with the NSW Police Force from
Outdoor group portrait of members of C Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Victorian Rifles, Boer War. The envelope housing the photographs states that it was taken at Enslin near Modder River, South Africa.