Churchill demanded to be released, claiming to be a newspaper correspondent. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill had travelled through the Transvaal and into Mashonaland in 1891 and had been highly critical of the Transvaal government. Winston Churchill, while known in British military circles and society, was not a household name and the Boers were delighted to have captured the son of a lord. (Lord Randolph, although he had been Chancellor of the Exchequer, bore only an honorary title – as the third son of the Duke of Marlborough he was not nobility). A Boer threw him a Dublin Fusiliers forage cap, seeing him hatless in the pouring rain. This photograph was taken in Pretoria – Churchill still wearing the forage cap.