'A try for the rock': this photograph, taken by Robert Gell for South African newspapers on 26 January 1900, shows the bodies of British soldiers strewn across the veldt at Spionkop after a heavy defeat by the Boers.
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'Dead bodies on the veldt, 1900', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/dead-bodies-south-african-war, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 2-Sep-2014
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