Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

We don’t have the people or the kit to do so. We need to remind ourselves that at the very end of the Cold War, in 1990, the British Army managed – just – to deploy a two-armoured brigade ...

As far back as the Second Boer War of 1899-1902 ... a dozen companies were commissioned to produce watches for the British military. These companies included Jaeger-LeCoultre, Longines and ...

The discovery of a collection of letters sent by a British army officer held captive by ... control of an unruly British regiment. The Boer War and World War One veteran must surely have feared ...

The entire British Army would be devastated in "six months to a year" in a major war – underlining the importance of rebuilding the UK's reserve forces, a defence minister has said. Al Carns ...

The regular British army could be wiped out in as little as six months if forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict, a defence minister has warned. Alistair Carns said a rate of ...

James Unkles said the council's decision not to honour the Boer War soldier on the memorial ... an irregular unit linked to the British Army. While defenders maintain that the executed men were ...

The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war, the British army experienced great difficulty in finding fit ...