2-321-740 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lord Kitchener and General Pole-Carew at Pretoria rail station, South Africa, 5th June 1901. Kitchener (left) succeeded Field Marshal Lord Roberts as commander of the British forces in South Africa in November 1900. As the Boers continued their guerrilla campaign, Kitchener responded by employing scorched earth tactics and forced civilians into concentration camps. Stereoscopic card.