We met up with Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, to learn about a weapon that was made famous by the Boer and Zulu Wars: the Martini-Henry rifle ...

Greenock man who worked in Ladyburn Tanwork writes home to a friend about his time serving as a Private in the Boer War in 1900.

young Evans survived the Boer War. His luck ran out in the First World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) while commanding the 3rd Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade in ...

The actions of sailors in the Siege of Ladysmith during the Boer War in 1899-1900 entered national and naval folklore: guns from warships were dismantled and turned into field guns, then transported ...

In time of war the UDF's numbers would be swelled by the traditional ... but a larger proportion would come from the UDF's other Citizen Force component, the rural Rifle Associations, effectively the ...

One hundred years ago today, on November 11 1918, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month – millions of men across the war-torn globe laid down their guns, heralding the ... Carton de Wiart ...

27 February 1902: Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock are executed. Just before the Boer War ended, lieutenants Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock were executed for murdering prisoners of ...

Though many men have contributed to the design of the bolt-action centerfire rifle, none have done as much as Paul and ...

William Church and Gen. George Wingate, set out to do something about the atrociously bad marksmanship they had witnessed during the Civil War. Of significant importance in the NBPRP deal was the ...

The Navy fired hundreds of interceptors, some costing $28.7 million a piece, to destroy Houthi and Iranian missiles and ...