Rarely if at all do the minds of British people turn to images of camps set up and run by the British Army when the words concentration camp are uttered. School curriculums endlessly examine the horrors of the Nazi system but seldom, if at all, do they turn to the actions of the British in the Boer war.

Concentration camps were first set up as a deliberate policy and tactic of war by the British Army led by Lord Kitchener during the period 1900 to 1902.