4th New Zealand Contingent

The contingent took more than two months to reach the front line, traveling via train and on horseback through Rhodesia and Beira.

Between August 1900 and May 1901, the contingent fought several small skirmishes against Boer commandos in northern Transvaal.

Their most significant action was to seize an artillery unit and a supply column under the command of General Koos de la Rey, capturing 135 Boer soldiers on 24 March 1901.

On 28 January 1901, William Hardham was involved in an action that earned him the Victoria Cross, the only one awarded to a New Zealander in that war.

[3] The Fourth Contingent left South Africa in the SS Tagus in June 1901.

Auckland members of the Fourth New Zealand Contingent in camp in Auckland before deployment to South Africa.