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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Siege of Ladysmith
|partof=[[Second Boer War]]
|image=[[Image:Ladysmith Town Hall 1900 - Project Gutenberg eText 15972.png|300px]]
|caption=The town hall at Ladysmith, showing shell damage to the tower.
|date=2 November 1899 - 28 February 1900
|place=[[Ladysmith, South Africa|Ladysmith]], [[Colony of Natal|Natal]], [[South Africa]]
|casus=
(contracted; show full)p://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A05E6DE1339E733A25756C0A9659C946197D6CF }}</ref> followed by much larger celebrations after [[Siege of Mafeking]]. There were four [[Victoria Cross]]es awarded during the siege, [[John Norwood]] on 30 October 1899. At Wagon Hill on 6 January 1900, [[Herman Albrecht]] and [[Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones]] (who both died), and [[James Edward Ignatius Masterson]].

== Medical treatment during the siege ==
Early in the siege an agreement between [[George 
Stuart White]] and [[Piet Joubert]] lead to the creation of the neutral ''Intombi Military Hospital'' some {{convert|5|km}} outside Ladysmith. During the siege, the number of beds in the hospital camp grew from the initial 100 to a total of 1900. A total of 10673 admissions were received and treated at Intombi.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Watt|first=S|title=Intombi Military Hospital and Cemetery|journal=Military History Journal|publisher=Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging|volume=5(contracted; show full)[[Category:Battles of the Second Boer War|Ladysmith, Siege of]]
[[Category:Sieges involving the United Kingdom|Ladysmith]]
[[Category:1899 in South Africa]]

[[es:Sitio de Ladysmith]]
[[fr:Siège de Ladysmith]]
[[no:Beleiringen av Ladysmith]]
[[pl:Oblężenie Ladysmith]]