What's new?

This page let's you know what has been added to the site.  The listing is in reverse chronological order:

• 31 Dec 06
  Biography of Rear Admiral W S Goodridge augmented.
   
• 21 Dec 06
  Biographies and pictures of Boer personalities augmented.
   
• 13 Dec  05
  15 pictures of concentration camps added.
   
• 12 Dec 06
  Pictures of prisoners of war added.  St Helena, Ceylon, India, Bermuda.
   
• 11 Dec 06
  Pictures of blockhouses added.  More maps added.
   
• 7 Dec 06
  A further account of the engagement at Brakenlaagte/Baakenlaagte added.
   
• 6 Dec 06
  More maps added.
   
• 5 Dec 06
  Page on British Artillery and shell types added.
   
• 4 Dec 06
  More maps added.
   
• 1 Dec 06
  Page on philately added.
   
• 30 Nov 06
  Information on the RAMC 1900 - 1901 added.
   
• 29 Nov 06
  Ranks of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Army added.  Page of maps reorganised and expanded.  Page on blockhouses started.
   
• 28 Nov 06
  Information and photographs on the Boer prisoner of war camps at St Helena, Ceylon, India, Bermuda and Portugal added.  Biography of Emily Hobhouse added.
   
• 27 Nov 06
  Concentration camp information split between concentration camps for Boers and concentration camps for Blacks.  List of concentration camp cemeteries added.  Boer casualty statistics added.  Statistics for Boer prisoners added.  Sample page showing records of Boer prisoners added.    Details of British prisoners of war added. 
   
• 24 Nov 06
  The site's second birthday.  Site site consists of 8,298 files, 5,467 images and 20,977 hyperlinks. Information of Prisoner of War camps and Concentration camps added.  New pictures added to Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.  Information on the RAMC's preparedness for war added.  The page on Boer personalities had been separated into three pages with pictures added.  These can be found at Boers A to D, Boers E to O and Boers P to Z.
   
• 17 Nov 06
  Pages for the different types of hospitals added: General Hospitals, Stationary Hospitals, Temporary Hospitals, Civil Hospitals, Field Hospitals and Bearer Companies.
   
• 10 Nov 06
  Picture of the Boer's Anglo Boer War Medal (ABO) added.  Pictures of shoulder and slouch hat badges added.
   
• 8 Nov 06
  Pictures of RN ships added.  Page on medical services started.  Pictures of nurses added.
   
• 22 Oct 06
  Boer War information from Stalker's Natal Carbineers augmented and completed.  A copy of the pages from 'Transport and Freight Ships for South Africa', dated 19 July 1900, listing all ships that arrived in Cape Town by date of arrival have been added.
   
• 21 Oct 06
  Images containing a nominal roll of the CIV added.
   
• 19 Oct 06
  Pictures of the Natal Carbineers added.
   
• 18 Oct 05
  Text from Stalker's 'The Natal Carbineers' added.
   
• 11 Oct 06
  Text from C H Thomas's 'Origin of the Anglo Boer War Revealed' added.
   
• 10 Oct 06
  Text from W A J O'Meara's 'Kekewich in Kimberley' added.
   
• 5 Oct 06
  Added to the pictures of officer's graves
   
• 21 Sep 06
  Pictures of the Transport Medal and RRC augmented.  A page on renamed QSAs has been started.
   
• 20 Sep 06
  More QSA naming styles added.
   
• 19 Sep 06
  Maps of Bakenlaagte, Wepener, Wagon Hill and Nooitgedacht added.
   
• 18 Sep 06
  Account of Brakenlaagte (Baakenlaagte) edited.  Pictures added.
   
• 17 Sep 06
  Pictures of the memorials at Primrose Cemetery, Germiston, Transvaal added.  These commemorate casualties who were previously buried a Baakenlaagte, Bethel, Boksburg, Boschmanskop, Devon, Leslie, Nooitgedacht, Oshoek and Springs.
   
• 27 Aug 06
  Information on the Shropshire Light Infantry augmented.
   
• 26 Aug 06
  Information added on the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894.
   
• 21 Jun 06
  Index provided for the Army mentions.  Elandslaagte roll update removed.  This will be available from Token Publishing from Oct/Nov 06. 
   
• 20 Jun 06
  Text and photographs from the book 'Besieged by the Boers' added.
   
• 19 May 06
  Index from the Transvaal War Album added.  The 361 photographs from this publication have also been added to the site.  Total images in the web site is 1,073.
   
• 18 May 06
  Information on Rimington's Guides augmented.
   
• 28 May 06
  Completed the QSA medal entitlement information for the Ross Machine Gun Battery.  Images for the book 'A Handbook of the Boer War' added.
   
• 21 May 06
  Text and pictures from the book 'Pioneer, Soldier and Politician' added
   
• 14 May 06
  Text and pictures from the book 'With the Boer forces' added.
   
• 13 May 06
  Text from the Book 'Neutral rights and obligations in the Boer War' added.
   
• 12 May 06
  Information on the Imperial Yeomanry units added.
   
• 9 May 06
  Data on the QSA issued to the Cavalry added.
   
• 7 May 06
  Information on Ross's Machine Gun Battery added.
   
• 6 Apr 06
  Text from the book 'The Boer in peace and war' added.
   
• 4 Apr 06
  Text from the book 'A Handbook of the Boer War' added. 
   
• 3 Apr 05
  Text from the book 'Regimental history of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment' added.
   
• 21 Mar 06
  South African General Service Medal 1877-79 medal roll index added.  KSA medal roll index added.  Queen's Mediterranean Medal roll index added.
   
• 20 Mar 06
  QSA medal roll index for the National Archives added.
   
• 13 Mar 06
  Pictures added to the RFA page and the CIV page.  Pictures of transport ships added.  Medal roll for war correspondents added.
   
• 10 Mar 06
  Information on the King's Royal Rifle Corps expanded.
   
• 7 Mar 06
  Details of the information available at the National Archives added.  Also the location of the QSA/KSA rolls, enrolment and nominal rolls for the South African units added. 
   
• 6 Mar 06
  Information on the Natal Carbineers augmented and pictures added.
   
• 26 Feb 06
  Request for information on HMS Dido added.
   
• 25 Feb 06
  List of South African units reorganised into alphabetical order.  Biography of Major A L Howard expanded. 
   
• 25 Jan 06
  Biographies of recipients of the Edward VIII DSO added.
   
• 20 Jan 06
  Text of Butler's Native Races and the War added.
   
• 16 Jan 06
  Information on King's South Africa Medals issued to the Navy added.
   
• 13 Jan 06
  Index to pictures in the Illustrated London News for the period Aug 1899 to Jun 1900 added.
   
• 10 Jan 06
  Text of Reitz's A Century of Wrong added.
   
• 9 Jan 06
  Text from Wilkinson's Lessons of the War, Henty's With Buller in Natal and the Boer War extracts from Davis's Notes from a War Correspondent added.
   
• 8 Jan 06
  Text for De Wet's Three Year's War added but not completed and the complete text for Warmelo's On Commando added.
   
• 7 Jan 06
  Approximately 40 pictures added to the awards recipients and to the Imperial unit histories.
   
• 6 Jan 06
  Civil CB recipient information expanded.
   
• 5 Jan 06
  Biographies of CB recipients and CMG recipients expanded.
   
• 2 Jan 06
  Biographies of GCB recipients completed