James Unkles said the council's decision not to honour the Boer War soldier on the memorial in Adelaide's CBD had the same "ring to it" as the kind of justice that was administered 122 years ago ...

Thank you to reporter Doug Schmidt for the May 10 Windsor Star article on the restoration of the Boer War Memorial in Jackson Park, and to Gene Lotz for his new book, edited by Herb Colling.

At the turn of the 20 th century, the Boer War held all the promise of noble and heroic adventure for thousands of young Canadian men. And for the nation it was an opportunity to show the world ...