'Royal Munster Fusiliers fighting, Honey Nest Kloof Battery, South Africa', 1900.

Soldiers behind a sandbagged redoubt. Wounded are being tended, suggesting a recent attack. One of a boxed set of stereoscope photographs produced for sale to the general public by a profesional firm of photographers, Underwood and Underwood. The Second Boer War (1899-1902) was the first war to be covered comprehensively by both film and still photography. This was the result of improved technology in both photographic equipment and printing techniques; cameras were more portable and magazines reproduced half-tone photographs. The Royal Munster Fusiliers served in South Africa from 1900 until 1902. The regiment was disbanded when the Irish Free State was established in 1922.