A SPECIAL WORD OF thanks to Mr Jonathan Evans, Trust Archivist at Barts Health NHS Trust, London, for information on Clara Evans; Ms Ruth Fitzmaurice of Cape Town, for the use of the original letters of her grandmother, Margaret McInnes; Mr Mark Wilkie of Douliou, Taiwan, for information and photographs of his great-grandmother, Margaret McInnes; Mr Robert Millar of Ontario, Canada, for information on his grandmother, Maud Graham; Prof. Kay de Villiers of Cape Town, for helpful information on nursing during the Anglo-Boer War; Mss Mimi Seyffert and Melani Ismail of Special Collections, Stellenbosch University Library; Ms Etna Labuschagne of the Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein; and the staff of the Simon’s Town Museum.