List of Second Boer War weapons
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
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
Single shot rifles
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". Canadian War Museum. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ 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". www.rifleman.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-07-11.
- ↑ "The Colt .455 New Service Model Revolver". Canadian War Museum. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ "The Maxim .303 Machine Gun". Canadian War Museum. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ "The Colt Model 1895 Machine Gun". Canadian War Museum. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ Barbour, Fiona (June 1974). "Mystery Shell". The South African Military History Society Military History Journal. 3 (1). Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ Hall 1971.
- ↑ Walter 2006, p. 308–310.
- ↑ "The Model 1893/95 "Boer Model" Mauser". Shooting Times. 23 September 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ "6 Rifles Used by the Afrikaners During the Second Boer War". 17 April 2017. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ↑ "The Model 1893/95 "Boer Model" Mauser". Shooting Times. 23 September 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
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). History of the War in South Africa. Vol. 2. London: Hurst and Blackett.
- ↑ B.M. Berkovitch (December 1976). "The Krag-Jorgensen Rifle of the Anglo-Boer War". The South African Military History Society. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "The Guns of the Boer Commandos". American Rifleman. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ Davitt 1902, p. 66.
- ↑ "Firearms and Firepower - First War of Independence, 1880-1881 - South African Military History Society - Journal". samilitaryhistory.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- 1 2 "Military & police handgun cartridges of South Africa. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
- ↑ "South Africa's National Museum of Military History". Small Arms Review. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ "7.7cm Feldkanone 96 NA MOD 1896". The Royal Canadian Artillery Museum. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
- ↑ "South African Military History Society – Journal- Guns in South Africa 1899–1902". samilitaryhistory.org. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
- ↑ Changuion, Louis (2001). Silence of the guns. Pretoria: Protea.
Bibliography
- Davitt, M. (1902). The Boer Fight for Freedom. Funk & Wagnalls. p. 66.
- 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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