On the side of London’s Boer War Memorial is a list of six names
of men who died in the fighting in South Africa. Deaths did not
even come close to the scale experienced in the Great War. The
Boer War was Londoners’ first taste of battle outside of
Canadian borders. They were very enthusiastic about the whole
thing. In 1900 the average Londoner considered himself a good
citizen of the British Empire, and they supported the Canadian
Contingent wholeheartedly. To judge by pictures in the local
newspapers, that supposedly depicted reality, one can see
something of a romanticizing of the war. Nothing was mentioned
about getting your head blown off by a dumdum bullet. That would
change after the Great War. John Andrew Dunegan #7188 Killed in
battle at Paardeberg February 18, 1900. He was buried in the
Vendusiedrift Garden of Remembrance, Paardeburg (Veteran Affairs
Canada: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial). He is #17 in the
above photo. Douglas Leeds Moore #7089 Died of enteric fever
February 14, 1900 at Orange R