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The First Doctor claimed to have been present during the Siege of Mafeking. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, The Invasion of Time) Hugh Curbishley also mentioned Mafeking. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp) The War Lords kidnapped soldiers from the Boer War for their War Games. The survivors were returned to Earth after the War Lords were defeated. (TV: The War Games) In November 1899, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown rescued Winston Churchill when he was a war correspondent in the Boer Wars. (PROSE: Players) During the later stages of the Second Boer War, the British pursued the policy of rounding up and isolating the Boer civilian population in concentration camps, one of the earliest uses of this method by modern powers. The wives and children of Boer guerrillas were sent to these camps, which had poor hygiene and little food. Many of the children in these camps died, as did some of the adults. A British journalist, WT Stead, wrote: The United States Army uses several case studies from the Boer War to teach ethics in combat.

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The First Doctor claimed to have been present during the Siege of Mafeking. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, The Invasion of Time) Hugh Curbishley also mentioned Mafeking. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp) The War Lords kidnapped soldiers from the Boer War for their War Games. The survivors were returned to Earth after the War Lords were defeated. (TV: The War Games) In November 1899, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown rescued Winston Churchill when he was a war correspondent in the Boer Wars. (PROSE: Players) Alexander Bruce fought with Mortimer Davey's father in the Boer War. (AUDIO: The Roof of the World) Richard Lansing, a bureaucrat in the British Foreign Office who was assigned to Uzbekistan in 1919, was injured in the Second Boer War. (AUDIO: The Memory Cheats) Mr Roecastle, headmaster at the Farringham School for Boys, had fought in South Africa. Oliver Redfern had died at the Battle of Spion Kop. (TV: Human Nature) Private Tommy Watkins was also killed in the battle. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault) Alexander Shuttleworth's uncle likewise fought in the battle. (PROSE: Human Nature) Lord Tamworth was involved in the Boer War. The Eighth Doctor claimed to have picked up some "colourful" Afrikaans during the war. (AUDIO: Storm Warning) During the later stages of the Second Boer War, the British pursued the policy of rounding up and isolating the Boer civilian population in concentration camps, one of the earliest uses of this method by modern powers. The wives and children of Boer guerrillas were sent to these camps, which had poor hygiene and little food. Many of the children in these camps died, as did some of the adults. A British journalist, WT Stead, wrote: "Every one of these children who died as a result of the halving of their rations, thereby exerting pressure onto their family still on the battle-field, was purposefully murdered. The system of half rations stands exposed, stark and unashamedly as a cold-blooded deed of state policy employed with the purpose of ensuring the surrender of men whom we were not able to defeat on the field." The German Empire saw this as a clear sign of British weakness as it was struggling to maintain a portion of its empire in Africa, and sent the Kruger Telegram, congratulating the leader of the Boers on his rebellion. This led to a change in approach to foreign policy from Britain, which now set about looking for more allies. To this end, the 1902 treaty with the Empire of Japan in particular was a sign that the British Empire feared attack on its Far Eastern empire and saw this alliance as an opportunity to strengthen its stance in the Far East. This war led to a change from splendid isolation policy to a policy that involved looking for allies and improving world relations[citation needed]. Later treaties with France ("Entente cordiale") and the Russian Empire, caused partially by the controversy surrounding the Boer War, were major factors in dictating how the battle lines were drawn during World War I.[citation needed] The Boer War also had other significance. The Army Medical Corps discovered that 40–60% of men presenting for service were physically unfit to fight. This was the first time in which the government was forced to take notice of how unhealthy the British population was. This strengthened the call for the liberal reforms of the first decade of the twentieth century. The United States Army uses several case studies from the Boer War to teach ethics in combat. The Boer War greatly affected the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and he was moved to compose the poem "Drummer Hodge".