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Hi Does anyone have information about the Russian involvement. How many and what action did they see.

Many thanks
Soutie

In Hall's Handbook of the Boer War it states that the following took part on the Boer Side.....

First to Arrive :-

German Corps: Klip River, Elandslaagte, De Aar, Colesburg, Nicholson's Nek, Modderspruit, SpioenKop, Vaalkrans, Vet River, Donkerhoek, Middleburg, Belfast and Bergendal.

Hollander Corps: Elandslaagte

Irish Brigade (2): Ladysmith, Brandfort, Dundee, Weltevereden

Scandinavian Corps: Magersfontein, Mafeking

Later arrivals and in smaller numbers, were:

French Corps: Boshof

Americans

Russians (First mention of Russians)

Swiss: Graskop

Hope that this is of some help and see the listing that I did on the Scandinavian Corps.....

Mikr

Hi Soutie.....

Found it.....

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/20-tribute-me...t-magersfontein-1899

Mike

Hi Mike

Thanks for the info, although it mentions Russians, I know there were about 150, mostly volunteers from the Transvaal and not soldiers, do you have anything else?
cheers Soutie

Soutie

You might like to see Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova, The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. They are two Soviet historians who have written at length on this subject both before and after the collapse of the communist regime. Best of all, I found the first 80 or so pages of their book on the web only yesterday.

On 26 June 1900, on a ridge near Lindley in Free State, Captain AEM Norton DSO, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen, shot dead a Russian in the uniform of a Russian naval lieutenant. The shot was fired over 1,200 yards. Norton was my grandfather.

A fortnight ago, in the Pretoria cemetery, I stumbled over the grave of Lt Boris von Strolman, killed near Lindley on 26 June 1900 and reinterred in Pretoria a few years later at the request of his mother in Moscow. From other evidence I'm confident this is Norton's man. On p.40 Davidson and Filatova state that Strolman, presumably a member of the Baltic German nobility which had served the Russian state for centuries, was both a volunteer and an observer for the Russian armed forces. So too was a Lt Alexander Guchkov, later Minister for War in the ill-fated Provisonal Government in 1917.

Tony

Hi Tony

Thank you for providing some little known but very interesting information. It seems that the Boer War had a nearly endless number of unusual participants who engaged in numerous incidents in obscure places. It takes a researcher such as yourself to bring this information to our attention.

Good luck with your continuing research.

Regards
Brett