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                    [0] => This agency was used by Archives New Zealand to describe the archives of the New Zealand forces which fought in the South African war, 1899-1902. Scanned PDF copies of the paper finding aids for this Record Group can be found here: Volume 1, Volume 5 (maps).
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This agency description was compiled as part of a project to capture the finding aids created prior to 1987 into the GAIMS system. The dates of the agency reflect the dates of the holdings of the South African War Archives Record Group. Fragments of the archives of the New Zealand forces fighting in the South African war 1899-1902 were found in the Army Department attic in November 1949. Subsequently they were transferred with the archives of 1NZEF [First New Zealand Expeditionary Force] to National Archives. The group does not contain a complete or organised body of records, but rather miscellaneous oddments.
A project in 2009 to provide better access to the record group paper finding aids, not previously fully captured in Archway, resulted in scanned PDF copies of the ring binders kept in the reading room being added to the record group agency and series descriptions in Archway. This project included WA-SA - South African War Archives, and the relevant volumes of the WA binders have been added to this agency.
                    [custom2] => Archives New Zealand, South African War Archive (WA-SA) Record Group, Undated Crawford, John, 'Boer War', in Ian McGibbon (ed), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History, Auckland, 2000, pp.59-63
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This agency was used by Archives New Zealand to describe the archives of the New Zealand forces which fought in the South African war, 1899-1902.
The South African War, also known as the Boer War, was fought between the British Empire and the Boer South African Republic (Transvaal) and its ally the Orange Free State. The conflict arose out of tensions regarding the independence of the Boer republics. It officially began on 11 October 1899. However, tensions had been rising in southern Africa for some time before this. A peace treaty was signed on 31 May 1902.
The war was the first overseas conflict to which New Zealand contributed troops. Parliament approved the offer of the first contingent on 28 September 1899, and it left from Wellington on 21 October. During the conflict 6500 volunteers were sent to South Africa in ten contingents. New Zealand also sent medical officers and nurses, and twenty female primary school teachers were sent to work in the Boer concentration camps.
The records preserved in the archives are fragmentary, consisting of material found in the Army Department attic in November 1949. They include war diaries, correspondence, telegrams, instructions and orders.
Other records of the South African war can be found in series 8663, formerly Record Group series AD34, a reference series created by the Army Department out of papers relating to the South African War.
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