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South African War Personal Narratives

By clicking on each name you can find out more about what each book is about.

South African War Personal Narratives sorted by Regiment

  • Connor, B. (ed.),Still jogging along: being the diary and some letters of Pte J. N. Clarke, 9th Contingent N.Z.M.R. (Dunedin: Otago Military Museum, 1989)
  • Cradock, M.,Diary of the Second New Zealand Mounted Rifles on active service in South Africa: from 24th February, 1900 to 21st March, 1901; also from 1st April, 1901 to 8th May, 1901 (Dunedin: Evening Star, 1913) 
  • Field, K. (ed.), Soldier boy: a young New Zealander writes home from the Boer War (Auckland: New Holland, 2007)
  • Fyfe, F. (ed), Harry's Letters from the Boer War: The Story in his Own Words of 1501 Trooper H. N. Yorke, C Squad, 7 Wellington Company, Fourth New Zealand Rough Riders 1900 (Greytown: Wakelin House, 1993)
  • Harris, L. H. (ed.), Boer War diary of Trooper Herbert H. Gawith, no. 2245, 5th New Zealand Contingent (Wellington, N.Z.: L. Harris, 1981)
  • Linklater, J., On active service in South Africa with "The silent Sixth" (Wellington: McKee, c.1903)
  • Malcolm, K. G., The seventh New Zealand Contingent: its record on the field: Second South African Boer War, 1901-1902 (Wellington: Deslandes & Lewis, 1903)
  • Moore, J. G. H., With the Fourth New Zealand Rough Riders (Dunedin: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers, 1906)
  • Pearce, R., Diary of Trooper R. Pearce, Fourth N.Z. Regiment, South Africa (Walton, N.Z.: M. Massey, 1970)
  • Perham, F.,The Kimberley Flying Column: being reminiscences of service in the South African War of 1899-1903 (Timaru, c.1958)
  • Twisleton, F., With the New Zealanders at the front: a story of twelve months' campaigning in South Africa (Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, c.1901)
  • Valintine, H. P., Ten weeks a prisoner of war (Wellington: Geddis and Blomfield, 1901)
  • Woodward, J. and Mitchell, G. (eds.), A nurse at war: Emily Peter, 1858-1927 (Christchurch: Te Waihora Press, 2008)
Soldier in a landscape, Artist: J McMaster, 1901

Soldier in a landscape
Artist: J McMaster
Date: 1901

Archives New Zealand
Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga
Wellington Office
[Archives Reference:
AAAC 898, NCWA Q389]

This page was last reviewed on 17 June 2010, and is current.