Story: South African War

More links and websites

• NZ Units in South Africa 1899–1902

  This feature on NZ History gives details of the different contingents and provides a complete database of those who served.

• South African War 1899–1902

  Another feature on NZ History provides an excellent overview of New Zealand’s role in the conflict.

• South African War memorials

  An overview of South African War memorials in New Zealand, including a map of their locations.

More suggestions and sources

• Crawford, John, and Ellen Ellis. To fight for the empire: an illustrated history of New Zealand and the South African War, 1899–1902. Auckland: Reed in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1999.
• Crawford, John, and Ian McGibbon, eds. One flag, one queen, one tongue: New Zealand, the British Empire and the South African War, 1899–1902. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
• Ellis, Ellen. Teachers for South Africa: New Zealand women at the South African War concentration camps. Paekakariki: Hanorah Books, 2010.
• Hall, D. O. W. The New Zealanders in South Africa, 1899–1902. Wellington: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1949.
• Phillips, Jock. A man’s country? The image of the Pakeha male, a history. Rev. ed. Auckland: Penguin, 1996.
• Stowers, Richard. Kiwi versus Boer: the first New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902. Hamilton: R. Stowers, 1992.