Which army uniform is this (2nd Boer British or WWI US)?

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The only thing I could add here would be that, besides the coat buttons appearing unusually large in comparison to those then in use on U.S. military uniforms, his uniform coat also has no "collar brass" (which would have been blackened brass in this era) that would have been required uniform wear for an enlisted man in the U.S. Army during World War I. The one on his right collar would have indicated the U.S. military, and the one of the left collar the military specialty in which he served (infantry, artillery, engineers, etc.).

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The word at the bottom right of the photo is almost certainly the town of Middelburg. Apart from the original one in the Netherlands, there are two in South Africa, one was in the Cape (now the Eastern Cape Province) and the other in the Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province)

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