The dataset comprises six digitised volumes (in PDF) of a collection of portraits and biographical details of some officers distinguished in the South African War (1900 - 1902) (with OCR-derived text.) The collection was formed by John Malcolm Bulloch..
The 156 MB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains six .PDF volumes. The 316 KB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains six .TXT files derived from OCR using ABBYY FineReader software (2007). The .TXT files contain plain text in UTF-8 encoding. Two Microsoft Excel workbook files in .XLSX (2010 version) and .XLS (1997 – 2003 version) format contain metadata about the digitised volumes. The British Library shelfmark is 'LR.271.d.1'. More information is available on the catalogue, link accessible via 'Related URL' (digital version).
