The Australian Army commemorates March 1, 1901, as its official foundation date.
This day had particular military significance in South Africa, where volunteer colonial state militia were fighting what is described as The Second Boer War.
It has also been described as the Anglo-Boer War, the Boer War, the South African War, though Afrikaners described it as the Second War of Independence.
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