Vanity Fair - MR AG Hales

Peace and War' Vanity Fair portrait of Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales (1860-1936), who was an Australian novelist and war correspondent. When the South African war broke out became a war correspondent for the London Daily News. For a time he wrote critically of the way in which the British were conducting their operations, but was wounded and made a prisoner by the Boers, and was not released until the end of the war. Hales wrote a book on his experiences, Campaign Pictures of War in South Africa, (1900).