Engineering:List of Second Boer War weapons
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This is a list of weapons used during the Second Boer War.
British Empire and colonial troops
Small arms
Rifles
Handguns
- Webley Revolver
- Enfield revolver
- Colt New Service (used by Canadian officers)[3]
Machine guns
Artillery
- QF 1-pounder pom-pom[6]
- QF 12-pounder 8 cwt gun[7]
- BL 15-pounder gun
- BL 5-inch howitzer
- BL 6-inch 30 cwt howitzer
Boers
Small arms
Rifles
Bolt action rifles
- Mauser Model 1893[8]
- Mauser Model 1895 (also known as the "Boer Model" Mauser)[9]
- Mannlicher M1888[10]
- Mannlicher M1895[11]
- Gewehr 1898[12]
- Krag–Jørgensen[13]
- Kropatschek rifle[14]
- Model 1878 Vetterli[14]
- Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk I (captured)[14]
- Lee–Metford (captured)[14]
Lever action rifles
- Spencer repeating rifle[14]
- Winchester Model 1873[14]
- Winchester Model 1876[14]
Single shot rifles
- Fusil Gras mle 1874[14]
- Guedes Rifle[14]
- Martini–Henry[15]
- Mauser Model 1871[14]
- Milbank-Amsler conversion rifle[14]
- Westley Richards Monkey Tail[16]
Handguns
Artillery
- QF 1-pounder pom-pom (Boer variant mounted on a wheeled field gun carriage)[18]
- 7.7 cm FK 96[19]
- 120 mm howitzer Model 1901[20]
- 155 mm Creusot Long Tom[21]
References
- ↑ "The Lee-Enfield .303 Mk. I Rifle". https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/boer/leeenfield_e.html.
- ↑ Site, National Rifle Association Historic Arms Resource Centre-Miniature-Calibre Rifles Reference. "Historic small-bore Enfield rifles, training rifles and BSA rifles; plus league competitions" (in en). https://www.rifleman.org.uk/Lee-Speed.html.
- ↑ "The Colt .455 New Service Model Revolver". https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/boer/colt45revolver_e.html.
- ↑ "The Maxim .303 Machine Gun". https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/boer/maximmachinegun_e.html.
- ↑ "The Colt Model 1895 Machine Gun". https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/boer/coltmachinegun_e.html.
- ↑ Barbour, Fiona (June 1974). "Mystery Shell". The South African Military History Society Military History Journal 3 (1). http://www.samilitaryhistory.org/vol031fb.html. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ Hall 1971.
- ↑ Walter 2006, p. 308–310.
- ↑ "The Model 1893/95 "Boer Model" Mauser" (in en-US). 23 September 2010. http://www.shootingtimes.com/long-guns/longgun_reviews_st_boermodel_201007/.
- ↑ "6 Rifles Used by the Afrikaners During the Second Boer War". 17 April 2017. http://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/second-boer-war-rifles/#mannlicher-m1888-1888-90..
- ↑ "The Model 1893/95 "Boer Model" Mauser". 23 September 2010. https://www.shootingtimes.com/editorial/longgun_reviews_st_boermodel_201007/99362. "Many of the rifles the Boers obtained were the popular, if obsolete, .450 Martini-Henry along with a mixed batch of smokeless powder Austro-Hungarian M.88/90 and M.95 Mannlichers, Norwegian M/1894 Krag-Jorgensens, and Portuguese Mo. 1885 Guedes."
- ↑ Maurice, Frederick (1907) (in en). History of the War in South Africa. 2. London: Hurst and Blackett.
- ↑ B.M. Berkovitch (December 1976). "The Krag-Jorgensen Rifle of the Anglo-Boer War". https://samilitaryhistory.org/vol036bb.html.
- ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 "The Guns of the Boer Commandos". 1 June 2016. https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/the-guns-of-the-boer-commandos/.
- ↑ Davitt 1902, p. 66.
- ↑ "Firearms and Firepower - First War of Independence, 1880-1881 - South African Military History Society - Journal". http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol052fm.html.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Military & police handgun cartridges of South Africa. - Free Online Library". https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Military+&+police+handgun+cartridges+of+South+Africa.-a0221093742.
- ↑ "South Africa’s National Museum of Military History". http://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=2490.
- ↑ "7.7cm Feldkanone 96 NA MOD 1896". https://en.rcamuseum.com/7-7cm-feldkanone-96-na-mod-1896/.
- ↑ "South African Military History Society – Journal- Guns in South Africa 1899–1902". http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol022dh.html.
- ↑ Changuion, Louis (2001). Silence of the guns. Pretoria: Protea.
Bibliography
- Davitt, M. (1902). The Boer Fight for Freedom. Funk & Wagnalls. p. 66. https://archive.org/details/boerfightforfre00davigoog.
- Walter, John (2006). Rifles of the World. Iola: Krause Publications. ISBN 9780896892415.
- Major Darrell Hall, "Guns in South Africa 1899–1902 Part III and IV" The South African Military History Society Military History Journal – Vol 2 No 2, December 1971
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