Mafeking Memories. Siege of Mafeking during Boer War. Frederick Saunders

London 1996, Hardcover with dustcover, 114 pages. Good, clean condition. 

Mafeking Memories is a memoir of the siege of Mafeking in South Africa during the Boer War, as recorded by Frederick Saunders (1883-1964). Saunders, sixteen at the time of the siege, volunteered for service in the Bechuanaland Rifles, defending Mafeking against the encircling Boers. The Boer War had just begun, and with Ladysmith and Kimberley under siege as well, British reverses signaled their possible defeat at the hands of the Boers, and an international humiliation for Great Britain. Of the sieges, Mafeking's was the longest, from October 1899 to May 1900. The British public watched events in South Africa intently.