1900 1901 1902 Bloody Sunday of February 18, 1900, was a day of high Imperial casualties in the Second Boer War.

The Imperial commander, Kitchener (temporarily replacing the unwell Roberts), began the battle by ordering a charge straight at the Boer trenches.

The Highland Brigade and the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, led the attack.

Attacks elsewhere along the line resulted in a total 1,100 casualties, with two hundred killed – the worst single day loss for the Imperial forces.

A further 2,000 Imperial soldiers died or were invalided at Paardeberg from illness, mostly due to drinking the water of the Modder River, downstream from where the Boer were throwing horse and cattle corpses killed by the artillery fire.