The remaining personal effects of Major General Sir Samuel B...

Hammer

£160

The remaining personal effects of Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele (Medonte, Canada 1848 - London 1919): 1903: A framed and glazed photograph titled 'B' Division South African Constabulary, Pretoria, 1903, names written in black ink above and below, (top row)- Lt Lang, Capt Strott, P. Maden, Capt Hilliman, CC/TO Balton?, Lt Agnew, Lt St George, Capt Moses, Lt Long-Innes, Capt Brann, Lt Clarenne, Lt Irvine, Lt Saunders, (center)- Gen. Baden-Powell, Maj.Birdwood, Col. Steel. O.C 'B' Div., (bottom row)- Capt Swift, Maj Travers, Capt De Havilland, Capt Kersley, Capt Hillard, Lt Steele, Maj. Edwards, and others 24 x 29cm, (9 1/2 x 11 1/2in). Lord Strathcona Horse was a privately formed Canadian light cavalry unit, in British Imperial service, was sent to South Africa during the Second Boer War, where Steele commanded them with distinction in the role of reconnaissance scouts. Steele, however, disliked what he was ordered to do by the British, which included burning towns, farms and homesteads, killing livestock of the Boer families and moving the populace to concentration camps. After the war, the regiment arrived in London in February 1900. Steele returned to South Africa that same year to command 'B' Division of the South African Constabulary, a position he held until 1906. The South African Constabulary (SAC) was a paramilitary force set up in 1900 under British Imperial control to police areas captured from the two independent Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State after the Second Boer War. Its first Inspector-General was Major-General Robert Baden-Powell, later the founder of the worldwide Scout Movement. After hostilities ended in 1902, the two countries became British Colonies, and the force was disbanded in 1908.