Spearman’s Camp
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.2024-03-3-1-18

Description

Photograph captioned: ‘Spearman’s Camp’ showing a view of a tented camp on the plains of South Africa, 1900-1902 (c). The camp was a British HQ where wounded soldiers were often taken during the Boer War. Possibly taken by B W Caney. From a collection of 102 photographs taken and/or collected by civilian photographer William Cox, who worked alongside early filmmaker William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson in South Africa during the Boer War for British Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Associated with the Boer War (1899-1902).

Campaigns

Boer War (1899-1902)