Motivating Factors in Foreign Volunteering: Tibor Péchy’s Enlistment in the Anglo-Boer War
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Abstract
Twelve Hungarian volunteers have been identified so far among the 2,500 pro-Boer
foreign volunteers who were ready to sacrifice their lives in the war between the Boer
republics and the British Empire (1899–1902). The overwhelming majority of these
volunteers travelled to South Africa to join the commandos of the Boers following the
escalation of the conflict. Tibor Péchy was one of the Hungarian combatants, but in
contrast with the other Hungarian volunteers, he had been living in South Africa since
1896. This makes him a special Hungarian participant of the Anglo-Boer War. The present
paper analyses the motivating factors behind Péchy’s enlistment with the Boers.