Editing Second Boer War (section)

==== Civilians and other combatants ====
'''[[Harold Lothrop Borden]]''' – son of Canada's [[Minister of Militia and Defence (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Defence and Militia]], [[Frederick William Borden]]. Serving in the [[Royal Canadian Dragoons]], he became the most famous Canadian casualty of the Second Boer War.<ref name="biographi.ca">{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5980&&PHPSESSID=ychzfqkvzape|title=Borden, Harold Lothrop |publisher=Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XII (1891–1900)}}</ref> [[Queen Victoria]] asked F. W. Borden for a photograph of his son, [[Prime Minister]] [[Wilfrid Laurier]] praised his services, tributes arrived from across Canada, and in his home town [[Canning, Nova Scotia]], there is a monument (by [[Hamilton MacCarthy]]) erected to his memory.<ref name="biographi.ca" />

[[File:Boer War Memorial, Plymouth.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial at [[Plymouth]], by [[Emil Fuchs (artist)|Emil Fuchs]]]]

'''[[Sam Hughes]]''' – Senior Militia officer and later a Federally elected [[cabinet minister]]. Hughes became involved in the Boer war as a member of Brigadier-General Herbert Settle's expedition after Hughes unsuccessfully tried to raise his own brigade of soldiers.<ref name="History of the Boer War" /> However, Hughes was dismissed and was sent home in the summer of 1900 for; sending letters back home which were published outlining British command incompetence, his impatience and boastfulness and his providing surrendering enemies favourable conditions. Hughes later became the Canadian Minister of Defence and Militia in 1911, just prior the outbreak of World War I.{{sfn|Duffy|2009}}

'''[[John McCrae]]''' – Best known as the author of the World War I poem [[In Flanders Fields]], McCrae started his active military service in the Boer War as an artillery officer. After completing several major campaigns, McCrae's artillery unit was sent home to Canada in 1901 with what would be referred to today as an 'honourable discharge'. McCrae ended up becoming a special professor in the [[University of Vermont]] for [[pathology]] and he would later serve in World War I as a Medical officer until his death from [[pneumonia]] while on active duty in 1918.{{sfn|Peddie|2009}}

'''[[Breaker Morant|Harry "Breaker" Morant]]''' – Australian soldier who, as a commanding officer, was accused of participation in [[summary execution]]s of Boer prisoners and the killing of a German missionary who had been a witness to the shootings. Morant was found guilty along with Peter Handcock and George Witton at their court-martial, with the two former being executed and the latter's sentence commuted, and later released from British prison to return to Australia after sustained public pressure to do so.{{sfn|Witton|2003|p={{page needed|date=February 2017}}}}

[[File:The Second Anglo - Boer War, South Africa 1899 - 1902 ZZZ7150D.jpg|thumb|A group of British prisoners, with [[Winston Churchill]] on the right]]

'''[[Winston Churchill]]''' – Best known as the prime minister of Britain. During the main part of the Second Boer War, Churchill worked as a war correspondent for ''[[The Morning Post]]''. At the age of twenty-six,{{sfn|Pakenham|1991a|p=568}} he was captured and held prisoner in a camp in Pretoria from which he escaped and rejoined the British army. He received a commission in the South African Light Horse (still working as a correspondent) and witnessed the capture of Ladysmith and Pretoria.{{sfn|Powell|2015|p={{page needed |date=February 2017}} }}

'''[[Mahatma Gandhi]]''' – Best known as the leader of the independence movement in India, he lived in South Africa 1893–1915 where he worked on behalf of Indians. He volunteered in 1900 to help the British by forming teams of ambulance drivers and raising 1100 Indian volunteer medics. At Spioenkop Gandhi and his bearers had to carry wounded soldiers for miles to a field hospital because the terrain was too rough for the ambulances. General Redvers Buller mentioned the courage of the Indians in his dispatch. Gandhi and thirty-seven other Indians received the War Medal.{{sfn|Desai|Vahed|2015|p={{page needed |date=February 2017}} }}

'''[[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]''' – Author and creator of [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Served as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June 1900. In his widely distributed and translated pamphlet 'The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct' he justified both the reasonings behind the war and handling of the conflict itself. In response to complaints about concentration camps he pointed out that over 14,000 British soldiers had died of disease during the conflict (as opposed to 8,000 killed in combat) and at the height of epidemics he was seeing 50–60 British soldiers dying each day in a single ill-equipped and overwhelmed military hospital.<ref>Miller, Russell. ''The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle''. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. pp. 211–217; {{ISBN|0-312-37897-1}},</ref>

'''[[James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon]]''' – Future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Served as a captain in the 3rd Battalion of the [[Royal Irish Rifles]] and as part of the 13th battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He was captured in 1900 but released due to a perforated colon and served as a deputy assistant director of the [[Imperial Military Railways]] until being evacuated to the UK due to ill-health.<ref>Patrick Buckland (1980). ''James Craig: Lord Craigavon''. Gill and Macmillan. p. 3.</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27168 |date= 23 February 1900|page= 1256}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27171 |date=6 March 1900 |page=1528}}</ref><ref>"The War – Embarcation of Troops". ''The Times'' (36078). London. 1 March 1900. p. 7.</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27475 |date=19 September 1902 |page=6024 }}</ref>

'''[[Frederick Russell Burnham]]''' – American scout and adventurer who frequently assisted the British in Africa, Burnham was prospecting in the Klondike at the time of the war's outbreak and originally was not intending to take part. However, a note from Lord Roberts reached him in Alaska, asking him to take on the role of Chief Scout of Roberts' staff if he should so choose. Burnham, on the other side of the globe, hurried to Africa and was commissioned a captain in the British army (a highly unusual practice given that Burnham was an American citizen, not a British subject). Burnham arrived at the front just before the Battle of Paardeberg and spent most of his time behind Boer lines gathering information and sabotaging railroads. Burnham was captured and escaped by the Boers twice<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.americanheritage.com/taking-sides-boer-war | title=Taking Sides in the Boer War }}</ref> and severely wounded at one point.<ref>Burnham, Frederick Russell (1926). ''Scouting on Two Continents''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. pp. 343–348 {{ISBN|978-0-86920-126-8}}.</ref>

'''[[Sol Plaatje]]''' - South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, writer and the only black person who kept a diary during the siege of Mafeking.