Photograph album kept by Major John S Churchill, relating to his service in the Oxfordshire Hussars, and also the South African Light Horse during the Boer War. Includes photographs of the armoured train ambushed by Boers in November 1899, where Winston Churchill was captured, and the Hospital Ship Maine, managed by Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome]. Also includes assorted memorabilia, telegrams etc, and some loose items.

Cuttings of war correspondence about WSC’s capture in South Africa by Boers and escape during Boer War; illustrations, cartoons and photos of WSC’s reception in Durban.

Also includes some documents

Press-cuttings of articles by LSA for the Times on the South African War.

Press-cuttings of articles by LSA for the Times on the South African War.

Head and shoulders portrait photograph of WSC with moustache wearing uniform and hat.

Cuttings of WSC’s speeches on Boer War, Education, Budget, Trade Unions.

Cuttings of WSC’s speeches and letters to the press on Finance, Free Trade, Boer War, and Army Scheme, Aliens Bill.

Notes and drafts for speech by WSC on The South African War Manuscript and typescript.

Typescript copy of WSC's speech on Mr Brodrick's scheme for Army Reform, 13 May 1901. [Typed on "G.R." headed notepaper, and therefore typed after 1910] Published Complete Speeches I, pp.76-86.

Manuscript notes for speech in Oldham on the South African War Unpublished.

Transcripts summarising letters from LSA to Chirol [Director of the Foreign Department of the Times] on LSA's work as the Times war correspondent in South Africa, particularly his discussions with Sir Alfred Milner [British High Commissioner for South Africa] and on Cecil Rhodes.

Photograph of the train line near Frere station, Natal [South Africa], where WSC was captured. White marks indicate the graves of 3 men killed in the affair and buried by the Boers. The wreck of the train is not actually shown.

Photograph of WSC, facing the camera, astride a pony which is standing in profile with its head down. WSC is wearing the uniform of [?] a Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse, while another soldier stands at the pony's head. The wreck of the armoured train is clearly visible just behind WSC, with more soldiers standing behind it in the distance.

Proof copies of JWHM's article on South Africa for the Quarterly Review, also including the draft typescript of an article on sources for South Africa and a list of JWHM's articles for the Quarterly Review.

Correspondence with George Prothero [Editor of the Quarterly Review] and 1st Lord Loch [former Governor of Cape and High Commissioner for South Africa] on corrections to JWHM's article on South Africa.

South African photographs.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (San Antonio Palace, Malta) to [Erskine] Childers commenting on Childers' book on the training and arming of the Cavalry [War and the Arme Blanche] and justifying his opinions by descriptions of actions in Afghanistan, 1879, the Boer War, 1900, and the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria [part of China]. Signed and annotated typescript.