If you've been following my blog at all in 2026 (don't worry, it isn't compulsory) you'll know I've become interested in the Boer War - an unjust war if ever there was one. In 2025's challenge I painted a scene from the First World War with a tank, so I always planned to do at least one Boer war painting this year.
This is based on a very well known photograph, with the sergeant major, the experienced private and the drummer boy. Makes you wonder how these children - and boys could serve overseas as young as 14, and that's a child- how these children coped with some of the horrors that they must have witnessed.
I did make a fineliner sketch of the same scene earlier this year -
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