Possible Clues:

• 'One of two armed conflicts in southern Africa (4,3)'
• Bloody European put in nick backed hostilities
• ''Breaker Morant'' setting
• Conflict that involved the British capture of Johannesburg in 1900
• South African conflict begun in 1899
• Wore bra uncomfortably in fight
• African conflict at the turn of the 20th century
• Turn-of-the-century conflict
• Conflict that saw the sieges of Ladysmith and Kimberley
• Rifle from the east protecting women during time of conflict