| Description | Album of photographs taken by Sir Alexander Ogston during the Boer War, volume 2. This a companion volume to Ogston's Boer War journal (MS 3850/1/6) and illustrates many of the subjects and places mentioned there. Each page contains four black and white photographs (numbered individually), heavily annotated with details of people and places identified in the photograph.
Pages 1-5 (photographs E29-E48):
Captured Cronje's Forces (p.1)
Modder River Camp (p.2)
More and more wounded from Paardeberg (p.3)
The wounded from Paardeberg still pour in (p.4)
And night brought no cessation of their arrival (p.5)
Pages 6-16 (photographs F1-F47):
Cronje's artillery (p.6)
Boer wounded and Island Hospital at Modder River (p.7)
Magersfontein (pp.8-10)
Enclosed between pages 10 and 11 is a sketch plan of Boer defences at Magersfontein
On the "trek" to Kimberley (pp.11-13)
On the "trek" to Kimberley and second visit to Kimberley (p.14)
Second visit to Kimberley; objects of interest [includes photographs of artillery guns used] (p.15/16)
Pages 16-26 (photographs G1-G48)
Second visit to Kimberley; objects of interest (p.16)
Military scenes in Kimberley and vicinity [includes photographs of foot wounds and ambulance wagon] (p.17)
Military scenes in and around Kimberley [includes photographs of field hospitals and military traction engine] (pp.18-19)
British defences of Kimberley and the attack on Carter's Ridge (p.20)
Carter's redoubt, plains of Kimberley and scenes on the route to Boshof (p.21)
Boshof (p.22)
Capture of Villebois' Commando [showing spot where Villebois was killed on 5th April 1900] (p.23)
Tweefontein, Villebois' grave and views of Boshof (p.24)
Boshof and its defences (p.25)
Scenes and events at Boshof, Orange Free State (p.26)
Pages 27-48 (photographs H1-K7)
Scenes and events at Boshof, Orange Free State (p.27)
Engagements around Boshof (p.28)
Scenes around Boshof [includes photograph of Ogston] (p.29)
Scenes at Boshof [includes photographs of swarm of locusts, troops firing on "skirmishers"] (pp.30-33)
On the march to Hoopstad [H30-H33] (p.34)
Arrival at Hoopstad [H34-H37] (p.35)
March from Hoopstad to Bothaville [H38-H41] (p.36)
March from Hoopstad to Bothaville [H42-H45] (p.37)
Arrival at Bothaville [H46-H48, I1] (p.38) "Here I became too ill to take many photographs"
March to Kronstad [I2-I5] (p.39) "Boer prisoners under escort"
From Kronstad to Bloemfontein in ambulance wagon and train [I6-I10?] (p.40)
Bloemfontein [I13-I16] (p.41)
Bloemfontein [I17-I20] (p.42)
Bloemfontein to Cape Town [I21-I25] (p.43)
Bloemfontein to Cape Town [I26-I29] (p.44)
Voyage Home [I31-I34] (p.45)
Voyage Home [I35-I38] (p.46) - includes photograph of Dr Conan Doyle
Voyage Home [I41-I48] (p.47)
Voyage Home [K1-K7] (p.48)
Inside back cover - eight photographs taken at various locations including horses being watered at Orange River and a tribal war dance. |