John French, 1st Earl of Ypres

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Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres,, known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.

Photograph of John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Commander-in-Chief

Colonel French in full dress uniform, 1892. This is one of the few photographs of French taken before his appearance aged dramatically, and hinting at his success as a womaniser.

French caricatured by GDG for Vanity Fair, July 1900

French in full dress uniform as Aide-de-Camp to King George V in September 1911.

Second Boer War

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The Second Boer War, also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.

(A typical British soldier) Corporal Alexander Duncan Turnbull of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts

Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881

A sketch showing the arrest of Jameson after the failed raid, in 1896

Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)