The war between Great Britain and two small South African Boer (Afrikaner) Republics-the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State- occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. It was inevitable that the British would achieve victory because of the vast resources of its Empire, but the Boers introduced them to tactics and warfare that shook them to the core. This was a foretaste of what would characterise the fighting of World War One.
The Transvaal became one of the wealthiest countries in the world on the discovery of massive deposits of gold - but what became of the vast amount of gold coin and bullion, which disappeared during the Boer War? Has Adam Evans found it?