| Leading the Corps of Electrical Engineer Volunteers in the Boer War, he used his arc lamp design to develop the military searchlight. |
| The dead of the recent Boer War and all the wars back to Waterloo and beyond became figures of the past. |
| Under his command the concentration camp was invented to contain Boer women, children and elderly men removed from their farms. |
| The arrival of De Boer may have salved a few wounds at Rangers in midweek, but Celtic were also busy on the transfer front. |
| Several yeomen are known to have volunteered for service at Waterloo, but no formed units saw action until the Second Boer War. |
| The gun run, loosely based on the exploits of Naval squads in the Boer War, was a mainstay of the Royal Tournament. |
