Australians in the Boer War
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Following are some likely sources on Australians in the Boer War that I've identifed but as yet neither examined nor partly processed (see the Progress page for material in the latter category).

If anyone has access to source materials in either list (or anything else that is relevant) and wants to volunteer to contribute to the database, the type of information being extracted is outlined on the Submissions page.  Any assistance will, of course, be credited to you in the Acknowledgements.
    Asplin, Kevin & the British Medal Forum team's PRO(UK) WO127 online extracts linked from here
    Austin, Ron - 'The Australian Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Zulu & Boer Wars'
    Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society - 'Bacchus Marsh and the Boer War - a Community's Response'
    Blair, Ron - 'Shoulder to Shoulder' - section on Boer War involvement of Drouin & Warragul Districts
    Blezinsky, Nick - 'Shoot Straight you Bastards'
    Braga, Stuart - 'Anzac Doctor - a Life of Sir Neville Howse VC'
    Breed, Florence - 'Forgotten Heroes of the South African War' men from the Donald District, southern Vic.
    Bugg, Terry - 'A Thorough Soldier'
    Chamberlain & Droogleever - 'The War with Johnny Boer'
    Calder, Winty - 'Heroes and Gentleman, Col. Price and the Vic. Mounted Rifles'
    Cameron, Bill - 'The Boer War from the Perspective of the Glen Innes Examiner'
    Chamberlain, Walter M. - 'To Shoot and Ride'
    Clarke, R. - 'Australian Awards of the Kings South Africa Medal'
    Clarke, Stan - 'Murray Country Heroes' - chapter on Boer War
    Cope, John - 'If only these stones could speak : a history of Queanbeyan Public School 1864-2001'
    Crisp, Robert - 'The Outlanders: the Men who Made Johannesburg'
    Daly, Francis Augustus Bonner - 'Boer War Memories', 1936
    Denton, Kit - 'The Breaker'
    Dixon, F.G. - 'Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, St. Kilda's Share'
    Droogleever, Robin - 'From the Front'
    Frost, Lenore - 'Essendon and the Boer War'
    George, DC - 'Carvings from the Veldt'
    Glendale, M.A. - 'British and Colonial Heroes at the South African British-Boer War'
    Goodman, R.D. - 'Queensland Nurses'
    Government Printer - 'The Staff and Regimental Lists of the Australian Military
    Forces'  1902 to 1914
    Gow, Rod - 'Boer War 1899-1902: Mafeking to Manning'
    Gray, Sheila - 'The South African War 1899-1902: Service Records of British and Colonial Women'
    Green, James - 'The Story Of The Bushmen'
    Hallet, David - 'The Seige of Elands River' in 'Wartime' Issue 15 Spring 2001
    Harmsworth Bros. Ltd. - 'With the Flag to Pretoria'
    Harris, Anthony F. - 'South African War Appointments Etc.' Harvey, Len - 'Letters from the Veldt'
    Harvey, Len - 'Volunteers to the War in South Africa 1899-1902 at the Coronation of King Edward VII'
    Haynes, Helen - 'Poor Jim has Died'
    Heggen, Colin - 'Mystic Soldiers of Empire'
    Holbrook, SF - Tasmanian newspaper cuttings (inc Boer War)
    [Knox Historical Society publication on Boer War]
    Kirk, Greg - 'Service in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 Australian Connections to the War'
    Kruger, Paul - 'My Duty Called me' covering men from South Western Victoria (due out end 2001)
    Laffin, John - 'Digger: The Legend of the Australian Soldier'
    Maddern, Martin - Diary Kept while representing Brisbane YMCA in South Africa
    McCaskill, Trevor - 'One Great Hour: David Willis and the Boer War'
    McClelland, James - 'Names of all Australians who Died on Service with Australian Military Forces'
    McIlven, Ercil (ed.) Horsham History Society - 'Wimmera-Mallee Volunteers to the Boer War 1899-1902'
    McIvor, Shirley & Trevor - 'Salute the Brave: A pictorial record of Queensland War Memorials' plus CD-ROM 'Queensland War Memorials and Tributes'. 
    McMullin, R - 'Pompey Elliott
    MS9158 in the NLA - 'Scrapbook About the Boer War'
    Munro, Jeff & McGill, Jeff - 'Campbelltown and the Boer War 1899-1902'
    Nicholls, Heather - 'Orange Remembers, Boer War 1899-1902'
    Perham, Frank - 'The Kimberley Flying Column'
    Perrett, Leslie H. - 'The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: from the Hunter Valley to Transvaal with Tpr. F. Avard, NSW Lancers'
    Pillinger and Staunton, - 'Victoria Cross Presentations and Locations'
    Redpath, JC et al - 'The Story of South Africa etc', Vol II
    Reid, Brian A. - 'Our Little Army in the Field, the Canadians in South Africa 1899-1902'
    Reid, George Duncan - 'The Story of a Pipe, a Soldier and a Chocolate Box'
    Sargeant, John R. - 'For Queen and Country'
    Shepherdson, Andrew - 'Journeys of a Light Horseman"
    Smith, Anne Carmel - 'Children of the Page'
    Smith, Neil & Sylvie - 'Brought to Notice'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Australia's Yeomanry Scouts'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Australians with New Zealand Contingents to the Boer War 1899-1902'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Army Medical Corps., Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Australian Recipients of the King's South Africa Medal 1899-1902'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Australians with New Zealand Contingents to the Boer War 1899-1902'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 1st Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 2nd Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 3rd Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 5th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 6th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Boer War: 7th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Carving Up the Melon: Australians in the Boxer Rebellion, China 1900-1901'
    Smith, Neil C. - '1st Victorian Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - '2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - '2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - '3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - '4th South Australian Bushmen's Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'Doyle's Australian Scouts'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'First to Fall'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'First South Australian Mounted Rifles Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'First Tasmanian Contingent'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'The Bushies'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'The Odd Blemish'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'The South African Mounted Irregular Forces 1899-1902'
    Smith, Neil C. - 'News from the Veldt'
    Smith, NC & Simpson, CV - 'The Featherbed Soldiers'
    ?Smith, Neil C. - 'British South Africa Police' (QSA Medal Roll)
    ?Smith, Neil C. - 'Canadian Scouts' (QSA Medal Roll)
    Smuts, Jan Christian - 'Jan Christian Smuts'
    Speed, Neil G. - 'Born to Fight - Maj. Charles Joseph Ross DSO'
    Sproule, Colin - 'From Picton to Pretoria'
    Sproule, Colin - 'History of the NSW Mounted Rifles'
    Steinberg, Rob. - 'Digging Up the Dirt'
    Steinberg, Rob. - 'Photographic Memoirs of Mafeking'
    Stevenson, Peter - 'Our Boys - Letters from the Front' re Inglewood Vic.
    Stirling, John - 'The Colonials In South Africa 1899-1902'
    Sutton, Ralph - 'For Queen and Empire'
    The Oaks Historical Society - 'Australians at War' files
    Tighe, Wm. Henry - 'The Man Whose Name was Left Off the Bathurst Memorial'
    Truswell, T.A. & Trill, S.F. - 'Australian Roll of Honour for the South African War 1899-1902'
    Turnbull, Catherine - 'The Ferntree Gully Shire Men who Served in the Boer War'
    Tyquin, MB - 'Neville Howse'
    Vincent, P - 'My Darling Mick [Ryrie]'
    Wallace, Jim - 'No Colours no Drums: Canadians in the South African Constabulary'
    Wallace, R - 'Queensland at the Front'
    Wallace, Robert - 'The Circumstances Surrounding the Seige at Elands River Post'
    Watson, Reg. A. - 'A Tasmanian's Participation in the Forgotten War'
    Wattrus, Rowena - Anglo-Boer War Service Record Extracts from PRO(UK) WO126 online here
    Wilcox, Craig - 'Australia's Boer War'
    Wilkinson, Frank - 'Australia at the Front'
    Wilmot, Peter - 'The Second Harvest'
    Wilson, HW - 'With the Flag to Pretoria' (Vols. 1 & 2)
    Wilson, HW - 'After Pretoria the Guerilla War' (Vol. 3)
    Wood, Ian - 'Transvaal, the Boer War 1899-1902: Goulburn and District Volunteers from the Goulburn Evening Penny Post'
    Wood, Ian - 'Transvaal, the Boer War 1899-1902: Volunteers from Queanbeyan and the Surrounding Districts'.

Colin Roe
Last changed 4 December 2006

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