Interesting, I was struggling for a few of the references in the chorus of the song. In the end I could identify 50%. A quick calculation (I was born 44 years after the end of the Boer war), would make this comparable to a 15-year old now having a bash at World War II references. How would they manage, I wonder? Hitler, Normandy, Ardennes, Stalingrad, Patton, Rommel,Doodlebug, Monte Cassino, Iwo Jima, Goebbels, Dietrich, The Few, ARP, Flying Fortress, Malta VC,Arnhem, Dresden. Any 15 year-olds out there (unlikely, I agree, on Mudcat), who could say how familiar those names are?
   I suspect they would get higher scores on this list, than 58-year olds on the Boer war, actually. The Hitler war reminiscence industry is pretty consistently big, and has been for years. The Boer War was a bit of an embarassment to be swept under the carpet, in comparison.
I must add that my pal Mark in Stoke lives in Pretoria Street, next to Ladysmith and Kimberley Streets. The memory lingers on.