Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork
MovieTitle | Regiments Returned from Boer War to Victoria Barracks, Cork |
User score | 6.8 |
Release date | May 22, 1902 |
Genre | Documentary |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Mitchell & Kenyon |
Run time | 2 min. |
These slightly weary-looking soldiers, just back from South Africa, were perhaps only temporarily housed in their Cork barracks before a well-earned return home. Despite Irish misgivings, some 30,000 Irish soldiers fought in the Boer War. In a neat lesson in colonial history, the barracks were named after Queen Victoria in 1849 and rapidly re-named 'Collins Barracks' after Irish independence.