'Bare foot parade, Tropics', 1900-1901 (c)

Photograph, Boer War (1899-1902), 1900-1901 (c).

An inspection of soldiers on board HMT Kildonan Castle.

HMT Kildonan Castle assisted in transporting some of the 166,277 troops from the UK and Ireland to South Africa. Kildonan Castle carried an average of 2,700 officers and men on each of its three voyages. The greatest number carried in any one trip was 2,893 by the Bavarian. In December 1900 she was used as a prisoner of war ship at Simonstown.

From an album of 47 photographs compiled by Lieutenant E H Hanks, 1900-1901.