My Gandfathers - by: SGRetired
I am researching the Boer War history of my two grandfathers. One was Major CTW Grimshaw DSO whose details you have on your database. The other is Capt EO Collison MC. I have his Queens and Kings South...
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Taken at Paardeberg - Stefanus Daniel Oosthuizen's story - by: Rory
Stefanus Daniel Oosthuizen Burger, Potchefstroom Commando – Anglo Boer War - Anglo Boer War Medal to Burg. S.D. Oosthuizen Stefanus Oosthuizen was born of farming stock in about 1869, presumably in the...
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City Imperial Volunteers ephemera part 2 - by: dunnboer
Having had cause to revisit my CIV archive, I thought I would share a few more items which I hope will be of interest. They are largely self explanatory I hope. Note from Albermarle on CIV stationery...
View ArticleAnon: Natal Volunteer Record - by: Rory
Hello David I know it's a mammoth task but any idea when the remaining pages/units will be added to the site? I am looking for the Company of the DLI in which a Trooper W. Sutherland served. Regards Rory
View ArticleMedal reunited - by: Bristowe
My Grandfather served with Loch's Horse in the 2nd Boer War. He is entitled to the Queens South Africa Medal with three clasps. I know that his medals (including WW1 medals) were sold about 30 years...
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The Armoured Train at Mafeking - Capt. A.H. Wallis - by: Rory
Alfred Harry Wallis, M.I.D. Captain, Western Division, Southern Rhodesia Volunteers – Anglo Boer War Captain and O.C. 1st Armoured Train – South African Rebellion (1914) Captain, South African Engineer...
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Battle of Congella - the very first (and very small) Anglo-Boer War - by:...
Yesterday, Durban's Saturday newspaper 'The Independent' carried a report on the forthcoming 175th Anniversary on 24 May of an event that had a profound affect on the later history of Natal. Parts of...
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Medal to a participant of the Battle of Congella - by: Brett Hendey
Probably the rarest of all the medals awarded for service in Natal is one to a man present at the Battle of Congella in 1842. One such medal was sold in 2013 at the City Coins Auction 63: I wish it was...
View ArticleGriffith Thomas Griffith, British Army to the U.S. Army - by: BereniceUK
Would he be the man listed as 21724 Trooper Griffith Thomas Griffiths, 81st Company, 21st Btn, IY. "Mr. Griffith Thomas Griffith, New York, son of Mr. Thomas Griffith, Ivy House, Corwen, has been...
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Henry Corrie Jackson, 59th Coy. Imperial Yeomanry - by: BereniceUK
Died at Boshof, South Africa, on 26th May 1900, aged 20. The window is in St. John's Church, St. John's in the Vale, about 3½ miles south-east of Keswick, Cumberland/Cumbria. The Merchant Taylors'...
View ArticleBreytenbach's History of the Boer War, volume II, chapter 9 now loads - by: djb
There was a problem with this PDF file preventing it from loading but that has been fixed now. angloboerwar.com/images/pdf/BreytenbachPt2h09.pdf
View ArticleStaatsartillerie History - by: QSAMIKE
Hi Everyone....... Does anyone know of a book on the history of the Transvaal Staatsartillerie, in English of course, or of any possible articles written on the subject?????? Thanks Mike
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A Prince Alfred's Guardsman in the Natal Police - George Arthur Hewitt - by:...
George Arthur Hewitt Private, Prince Alfred’s Volunteer Guard – Anglo Boer War Trooper, Natal Police, Bambatha Rebellion - Queens South Africa Medal with clasp Cape Colony to 1684 Pte. G.A. Hewitt,...
View ArticlePrivate Thomas Walsh, 4th Cheshire Regiment - died in South Africa - by:...
Defrauding the War Office. At Stockport yesterday Mary Roden was sent to prison for fourteen days for falsely personating a relative of Thomas Walsh, private in the 4th Cheshires, who died in South...
View ArticleGunner Sydney Golding 94th Imperial Yoemanry 36363 - by: ELLYDOG
It is getting close to my trip to South Africa. Can anyone give me any information on this soldier as to where he may have seen action, etc. Ron Wainwright ( Grandson living in New Zealand
View ArticleRobert Edwards - by: Gloria
Hi, I am researching my GF Robert (Francis) Edwards whose obituary (died 1936 in Lismore, Australia) indicates that he served in the Boar War (British army). Parents were Robert (William) Edwards and...
View ArticleInteresting postal cover 1902 - Colonel Carter(Wilts) &Theophilus Shepstone -...
I was wondering if anybody could shed a little light on this interesting postal cover I recently purchased with some other pieces of Boer War ephemera. My problem is the correlation between the date...
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Pennsylvania Mining Disaster 1904 - by: Rory
One never knows what story's hide behind a medal!! Yesterday I acquired a QSA to a Fred Stockman of the Prince of Wales Light Horse with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State and South Africa 1901. I...
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Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum, Caernarfon - by: BereniceUK
www.rwfmuseum.org.uk/ Caernarfon Castle - a wonderful place to visit. www.caernarfon-castle.co.uk/ Officers and men of the 1st Battalion, and their goat, in South Africa, 1900. There was also a film...
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New Umvoti Mounted Rifles/ Natal Voluntary Composite Regiment medal - by: Rory
Herewith the QSA with clasps Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and Laing's Nek to 270 Corpl. W.E. Meek. He enlisted on 1.10.00. as a Sergeant with the Natal Volunteer Composite Regiment...
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