Boer war tinned emergency rations to be auctioned at Hansons

The two Boer Wars were real eye-openers to the Brits in many ways. It was a period when colonial campaigns collided with the reality of modern warfare, and supplying a mass army was a big part of this.

Hundreds of thousands of troops from the British Empire served in the (Second) Boer War (1899-1902) …

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