BLOCKHOUSES - by: Brett Hendey
theheritageportal.co.za/article/one-most...-south-africa-if-not This very interesting link was sent to me recently. Brett
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SIEGE OF LADYSMITH [Christmas day 1899] - by: Elmarie
During the Siege of Ladysmith, the Boer forces fired two salvo’s on Christmas Day 1899 with a Long Tom at Ladysmith. The projectiles which ended up in the camps of the Natal Carbineers and the Imperial...
View ArticleDeaths in Concentration Camps in South Africa - Statistics - by: Elmarie
I've just completed 67 lists with names on deaths in Concentration Camps in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. ALIWAL-NOORD [778] BALMORAL [542] BARBERTON [274] BELFAST [311] BETHULIE [1745]...
View ArticleNew member and research question - by: porpoise007
I am a keen collector of military whistles my collection comprises of around 100 all different dates and from different campaigns, a few from the Boer War period. I recently purchased a very nice...
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WESTMINSTER GAZETTE CARTOON-ONCE IN DRAGOON GDS READING ROOM - by: Baden Powell
A number of years ago while passing thru London, an auction house friend of mine asked me to accompany him to pick up some framed pictures being disposed of. The Dragoon Gds were refurbishing the NCO...
View Article4556 Trooper William John Burgess - Roberts' Horse - by: Marcus Fielding
Hello, I have just recently discovered this relative. The records show that he was a member of Roberts' Horse. www.angloboerwar.com/unit-information/so...ts/464-roberts-horse But he emigrated to...
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St. Philip's Church, Litherland - by: BereniceUK
In 1902, Litherland was in the process of rapidly expanding - ten years before there were open fields in the area. It was in Lancashire, neighbouring the town of Bootle, with Liverpool to the south,...
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Original BW Medal Ribbon - by: QSAMIKE
Good Evening Everyone...... Today I had the opportunity to see some of the ribbon that was to be used on the original proposed Boer War medal...... I have been looking for some of this for years,...
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SCOTTISH HORSE (?) BANNER - by: Baden Powell
I know this is just post ABW but had to post it. I found this old faded photo while going thru a box of my old stuff. I was photod in my backyard hanging on the clothesline about 1968. I do not recall...
View ArticleGeorge Spain - by: BereniceUK
I'm currently reading a biography, which includes the following information on two ABW officers: - George Redesdale Brooker Spain, was born at Horsley, Northumberland, on 23rd June 1877, and, after his...
View ArticleD.N.W. Preview....... - by: QSAMIKE
Hi Everyone...... Lots of nice Lots in the March DNW auction...... Some good QSA's and a lot of DCM's including one with Two Dated Bars...... Preview is available to see...... Mike
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Cape Town Peace medal - by: iaindh
This came into my possesion; unusual in that it has Queen Victoria's head on the obverse, but is issued by the Corporation of the City of Cape Town "To commemerate the restoration of peace." Perhaps...
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Royal Engineers and Ordnance Survey - by: wright1902
Hi, I'm new to this group and am actively seeking info about RE Ord. Survey in Cape Town area during Boer War. My Great Grandfather Sidney Arthur Wright was with this company later transferred to 19th...
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Midland Mounted Rifles QSA to a Q.M.S. - by: Rory
Having departed English shores on 13 December last year I was overjoyed to finally receive this medal in today's post. Story to follow at some point.... Regards Rory
View ArticleE B Phillips ex Natal Police and ex Durban Light Infantry. - by: wades
Have just received a newspaper report describing this mans involvement in the ABW. It states that he was in S Africa prior to the outbreak of war and that he joined the DLI in the early part of 1898....
View ArticleKITCHENER'S HORSE SERVICE NUMBERING. - by: Sussex.T
Evening all. I've been lucky enough to acquire a QSA medal to a Sergeant Ernest Sydney SARA...25328...Kitchener's Horse.Ernests medal has the clasps for CC,OFS and TRANS.He was also awarded a clasp 'SA...
View ArticleNewbie Here - by: Bannister
Hi All Im really excited to have found this website. I am looking for my GGG Grandfather Thomas Parkinson Born on 17th August 1868 in Accrington, Lancashire. Not long after his marriage he left for the...
View ArticleConstantinus Johannes Fauconnier. - by: Hall-Green
I am looking for info about my Great Grandfather, Constantinus Johannes Fauconnier. Born about 1850 in Knysna. Died 13 December 1900 at battle of Nooitgedacht near Rustenburg. Also trying to find out...
View ArticleBATTLE OF NOOITGEDACHT - by: Hall-Green
Would like to see a picture of the memorial to this battle and find out where it is. Does the name of Constantinus Johannes Fauconnier, who died in the battle in December 1900, appear on the monument?
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The debonair Mr Smythe - by: Rory
Henry Smith (or Smythe as he became) was an army deserter who made good in business in South Africa but not without a few incidents along the way.... Henry Lockhart Smythe Private, 1st Dragoon Guards...
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