Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) - British Casualties

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According top the Encyclopaedia Britannica nearly 100,000 lives were lost, including those of more than 20,000 British troops and 14,000 Boer troops. Noncombatant deaths include the more than 26,000 Boer women and children estimated to have died in the concentration camps from malnutrition and disease; the total number of African deaths in the concentration camps was not recorded, but estimates range from 13,000 to 20,000.

British Casualties

The British Army started off with 12,546 men in South Africa when the war began, but the number of officers and men actually employed from first to last, during the war, was officially given as 448,435.

There are discrepancies in the Casualty figures between the Official History and those recorded in 'The Times' Vol VII, whose figures are shown in brackets.

Killed in Action or Died of Wounds

• 7,582 including 712 officers (7,894; 706 officers).

Died of Disease

• 13,139 including 406 officers (13,250; 339 officers).

Total Deaths 20,721 (21,942, includes accidental deaths).

More than half of British casualties during the war were caused by illness, especially typhoid fever, rather than enemy action

British Lists online

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B

• Lieutenant Colonel George Elliot Benson 1861 - 30 October 1901 – Battle of Bakenlaagte

• Lieutenant Robert Walter Maxwell Brine 1875 - 23 November 1899 (Battle of Belmont)

• Age: 24
• Regiment: 1/Northumberland Fusiliers

C

• Captain Charles Welman Collins 1872 - 14 November 1901 Signaling Officer – Cheshire Regiment
• Private James Henry Corrie 1863 - 25 November 1899 (Siege of Kimberley)

• Age: 36
• Regiment: District 2/Cape Police

E

• Captain Edward Boaz Eagar 1860 - 23 November 1899 (Battle of Belmont)

• Age: 39
• Regiment: 1/Northumberland Fusiliers

K

• John Bell Kelly Lieutenant 1869 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)

• Age: 31
• Address: Victoria, Australia
• Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse

L

• Michael William Howard Lindsay Captain 1872 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)

• Age: 29
• Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse

• Captain Thomas Henry Eyre Lloyd 1871 - 30 October 1901 Assistant Staff Officer – Coldstream Guards – Battle of Bakenlaagte

M

• Alexander Bonthrone Morgan Sergeant 1872 - 30 October 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte)

• Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse

• Major Frederick Dymoke Murray 1872 - 30 October 1901 Commander – 2nd Scottish Horse – Battle of Bakenlaagte

P

• Guardsman Robert George Perkins 1876 - 23 November 1899 (Battle of Belmont)

• Age: 23
• Regiment: 1st Scotts Guards

• Captain Alfred Durham Plomer 1868 - 29 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)

S

• Captain Albert Savory 1878 - 23 August 1900 (Battle of Bergendal)
• William Bradshaw Galliard Smith 1862 - 1901 (Battle of Bakenlaagte) Sergeant

Links to useful webpages

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War#CITEREFDavenportSaunders2000
• Boer War Roll of Honour

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• Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) - Notable British Armed Forces British military leaders and notable participants
• Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) - British Armed Forces dedicated to the lower ranks of the British Armed Forces
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