War correspondents returning from the Boer War on the RMS Dunottar Castle, July 1900

Photograph, 1900.

The group includes Winston Spencer Churchill (second row, seated, second from left). Churchill worked as a correspondent for the 'Daily Mail' and the 'Morning Post' in South Africa during the Boer War (1899-1902). He was captured by Boer forces in October 1899 but escaped from captivity in December the same year. After serving with the South African Light Horse he returned to England on the Dunottar Castle in July 1900.