Casualties

This page contains details of Imperial and Boer Casualties.  Click here for recent photographs of memorials to (imperial) Boer War casualties.

Imperial casualties

The total casualties suffered by the British, Colonial and South African forces during the Boer War were 97,477.  These are shown in this table:

	Officers	NCOs and men
Killed in action	518	5,256
Died of wounds	183	1,835
Deaths from disease	339	12,911
Accidental deaths	27	771
Prisoners who died in captivity	5	97
	1,072	20,870
Invalided - due to wounds	3,116	8,221
Invalided - due to sickness		63,644
Invalided - reason unknown		449
Missing and prisoners		105
	4,188	93,289
Source: The Times History of the War in South Africa (Volume 7, page 25)

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Officers and Officers by battle
Natal Field Force
Doctors and surgeons
Nurses
Churchmen
War correspondents
Casualties by unit

Other British and Colonial casualties are listed below:

Staff
    Casualties (officers): 11 KIA, 5 DOD, 30 wounded, 1 missing/prisoner

Other units of regular forces
    Casualties (officers): 13 KIA, 66 DOD, 44 wounded, 7 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 20 KIA, 651 DOD, 48 wounded, 97 missing/prisoner

Imperial Yeomanry
    Casualties (officers): 67 KIA, 25 DOD, 131 wounded, 50 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 470 KIA, 839 DOD, 1,236 wounded, 953 missing/prisoner

Militia
    Casualties (officers): 15 KIA, 38 DOD, 34 wounded, 27 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 160 KIA, 1,056 DOD, 368 wounded, 705 missing/prisoner

City Imperial Volunteers
    Casualties (officers): 1 KIA, 0 DOD, 1 wounded, 0 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 10 KIA, 51 DOD, 58 wounded, 12 missing/prisoner

Volunteers
    Casualties (officers): 2 KIA, 11 DOD, 12 wounded, 1 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 29 KIA, 527 DOD, 117 wounded, 56 missing/prisoner

Civil surgeons, civilians etc
    Casualties (officers): 5 KIA, 23 DOD, 23 wounded, 4 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 14 KIA, 176 DOD, 55 wounded, 16 missing/prisoner

Australian contingents
    Casualties (officers): 29 KIA, 9 DOD, 77 wounded, 5 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 222 KIA, 258 DOD, 658 wounded, 142 missing/prisoner

Canadian contingents
    Casualties (officers): 7 KIA, 3 DOD, 23 wounded, 1 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 87 KIA, 76 DOD, 255 wounded, 55 missing/prisoner

New Zealand contingents
    Casualties (officers): 7 KIA, 4 DOD, 26 wounded, 2 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 78 KIA, 87 DOD, 176 wounded, 41 missing/prisoner

South African corps
    Casualties (officers): 119 KIA, 69 DOD, 328 wounded, 67 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 1,354 KIA, 1,538 DOD, 3,005 wounded, 1,707 missing/prisoner

Other contingents
    Casualties (officers): 2 KIA, 0 DOD, 0 wounded, 1 missing/prisoner
    Casualties (men): 6 KIA, 5 DOD, 14 wounded, 8 missing/prisoner

Boer casualties

Transvaal
Killed up to 31 Dec 01		1,540
Died of disease etc		700
Casualties since 1 Jan 02		2,400
Orange Free State
Killed up to 31 Dec 01		1,100
Died of disease etc		450
Casualties since 1 Jan 02		1,500
Rebels (ie from Cape Colony and Natal)
Killed and died of disease		700
Casualties including prisoners since 1 Jan 02		403
Foreign nationals
Killed and died of disease		300
		9,093

Source:  Director-General of Military Intelligence, Pretoria and supplied to the Royal Commission by the War Office (19 July 1902)