- Robert Powell
- Self - Narrator
- Robert Baden-Powell
- Self - British General
- Louis Botha
- Self - Boer General
- Redvers Buller
- Self - British General
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Joseph Chamberlain
- Self - Secretary of State for the Colonies
- Christiaan de Wet
- Self - Boer General
- John French
- Self - British General
- William Gatacre
- Self - British General
- William Gladstone
- Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Emily Hobhouse
- Self - British Welfare Campaigner
- Leander Starr Jameson
- Self - Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
- Petrus Joubert
- Self - Boer General
- Lord Kitchener
- Self - British General
- Paul Krüger
- Self - State President of the South African Republic
- Paul Methuen
- Self - British Field Marshal
- Alfred Milner
- Self - High Commissioner for Southern Africa
- Cecil Rhodes
- Self - Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
- Frederick Sleigh Roberts
- Self - British Field Marshal
- Jan Smuts
- Self - Boer General
- Martinus Theunis Steyn
- Self - State President of the Orange Free State
- Penn Symons
- Self - British General
- George Stuart White
- Self - British General
- Garnet Joseph Wolseley
- Self - British Field Marshal
