Boer POWs during South African War

Young Boer boys astride their donkeys outside their encampment. Boys such as these were among the many South Africans held in concentration camps run by the British. By the middle of 1901, more than 90,000 South Africans, mainly women and children, were held in camps where inadequate conditions led to the death of up to 28,000 people, most of them under sixteen years of age. Photographed by John McGrath of the New Zealand Rough Riders.