Fully bound red leather with flaps. Portrait album containing RCINs 2502151-2502349 showing the officers killed in action, the majority of the portraits with date and place of death written below the image.

In October 1899, the Second Anglo-Boer War was declared between Britain and the Independent Boer States of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. In 1902 the war ended following a campaign by the British against the Boers under the leadership of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts. The British merged the two former republics into the Union of South Africa, (now the Republic of South Africa), bringing it under the control of the British Empire, in 1910.