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34 Ibid., 25 June 1900. 35 Ibid., 2 December 1900; Pakenham, Boer War, 495. 36 Di ary of R. M. Poore, 16 December 1900. 37 Ibid., 21 December 1900. 38 Ibid., 1 June 1901. 39 See N. Bleszynski, Shoot Straight You Bastards! (Sydney: Random House Australia, 2003). 40 C. Wilcox, 'Ned Kelly in Khaki', in Australian Magazine, 23 February 2002. 41 N. Bleszynski, 'Murder or Justice?', in The Canberra Times, Febru ary 2002. 42 'Breaker Morant: Justice Denied' in The Bulletin at http://bulletin.ninemsn.com.au/bulletin/site, accessed 29 June 2006. 43 Di ary of R. M. Poore, 20 February 1901. 44 Ibid., 10 April and 29 April 1901. 45 Ibid., 7 October 1901. 46 Bleszynski, Shoot Straight You Bastards!, 334. 47 Ibid., 346 48 See in particular the transcript of the ABC television document ary 'Rewind', 22 August 2004, which discusses Poore's diary statements at www.abc. net/tv/rewind/txt/s1179329.htrn, accessed 29 June 2006. 49 C. Wilcox, 'Ned Kelly in Khaki'. 50 Diary of R. M. Poore, 25 February 1902 51 Stoddart, 'Sport, Cultural Imperialism', 658. 1 This song appears with 38 others in a neatly compiled handwritten book of Boer prisoner of war songs from their stay in Ceylon. The 'Cricket Song' is one of the few songs which has no direct bearing on the South African War. The others tell of the atrocities of war; describe Boer triumphs; lament the lot of Boer prisoners of war; taunt the British; or serve as inspiration to the prisoners of war. The book was compiled by Dawid J. J. de Villiers and George Simon Sennett. After the war, the book was donated by De Villiers to Sennett, who diligent!y preserved it for the next 74 years until his death in 1976. The song book, as well as a detailed scrap book compiled by Sennett during his time in Ceylon, passed on to

Abroad 1700-1914 (London: Frank Cass, 1988), 206-07. 10 T. Pakenham, The Boer War (London: Abacus, 1979), 572. 11 Holt, Sport and the British, 208. 12 D. Allen '"Bats and Bayonets": Cricket and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902', Sport in History 25, 1 (April 2005), 17-40. 13 P. Bailey, P. Thom and P. Wynne-Thomas, Who's v\lho ofCricketers (London: Hamlyn, 1993). 14 Holt, Sport and the British, 205; J. A. Mangan, The Games Ethic and Imperialism (Middlesex: Viking, 1986), 21-43. 15 J. D. Coldham, Lord Harris (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1983), 88. 16 Natal Witness, 8 November 1895. 17 J. Lonsdale, 'England's Tour Problems', in Wisden Cricket Monthly, Janu ary 1985. 18 Sunday Express, 8 July 1924. 19 Natal Witness, 31 January 1896. 20 Port Elizabeth Telegraph, 10 February 1896. 21 T. Jeal, Baden-Powell (London: Pimlico, 1989), 174. 22 National Army Museum, Acc. No. 7404-44-1, R. M. Poore, bound journal kept by Captain R. M. Poore in Rhodesia between 29 June and 13 October 1896. 23 R. S. S. Baden-Powell, The Matabele Campaign 1896: Being a Narrative ofthe Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeland and Mashonaland (London: Methuen and Co, 1897). 24 Rhodesia Herald, various June-September 1897. 25 Natal Witness, 13 October 1897. 26 The full details are in J. Lonsdale, The Army's Grace (Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1992) and in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1900 (London: John Wisden, 1900). 27 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Poore Papers, Diary of R. M. Poore, 2 October 1899. 28 Pakenham, Boer War, xxi. 29 Diary of R. M. Poore, Janu ary 1900. 30 Di ary of R. M. Poore, letter of 15 July 1900 to Col. Duff, HQ South African Field Force. 31 Diary of R. M. Poore, Febru ary -April 1900. 32 Ibid., 12 June 1900. 33 Ibid., 23 October 1900.

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