How many people died during the Boer War is very difficult say, accepted figures vary between sources and at best all we can do is make a rough estimate based on what information is available. Its also difficult to quantify numbers of how many people died as a result of the war. There is also the large grey area that arises when you start dealing with the undocumented deaths and those who slipped between the cracks of officialdom. I doubt whether we will ever know the cost in lives in this war, which started out as a small war and rapidly escalated into a big one.
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Casualty figures obtained from The Hall Handbook of the Anglo Boer War. By Darrell Hall, Edited by Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Toriage. |
