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LCpl Luke McCulloch from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, who was killed in action following a contact with Taleban forces in Sangin, Helmand province on Wednesday 6 September 2006. LCpl McCulloch was part o…

PRETORIA Fifth SANDF soldier dies after fire Fri, 23 Aug 2002 A fifth SA National Defence Force soldier has died of burn wounds sustained during a veld fire at a police training area in Limpopo, the SANDF said on Friday.

PRETORIA Fifth SANDF soldier dies after fire Fri, 23 Aug 2002 A fifth SA National Defence Force soldier has died of burn wounds sustained during a veld fire at a police training area in Limpopo, the SANDF said on Friday.

PRETORIA Fifth SANDF soldier dies after fire Fri, 23 Aug 2002 A fifth SA National Defence Force soldier has died of burn wounds sustained during a veld fire at a police training area in Limpopo, the SANDF said on Friday.

PRETORIA Fifth SANDF soldier dies after fire Fri, 23 Aug 2002 A fifth SA National Defence Force soldier has died of burn wounds sustained during a veld fire at a police training area in Limpopo, the SANDF said on Friday.

Sergeant Bongani Andries Nkwanyana (39) of Babanango in KwaZulu-Natal. The fourth man,

Sergeant Nthatheni Makumbane (34) of Thohoyandou, and

Warrant Officer Elias Viva Vavarirai (46) of Namakgale near Ba-Phalaborwa in Limpopo,

Major GS Zulu (45) died on Thursday night at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria, a statement said. He is survived by his wife, Happy Zulu. Five people died after fighting a blaze at the police Special Task Force's Verdrag…

PRETORIA Fifth SANDF soldier dies after fire Fri, 23 Aug 2002 A fifth SA National Defence Force soldier has died of burn wounds sustained during a veld fire at a police training area in Limpopo, the SANDF said on Friday.

CWGC Casualty Details Name: ESSON Initials: W A S Nationality: South African Rank: Sergeant Regiment/Service: First City/Cape Town Highlanders, S.A. Forces Force: --> Age: 26 Date of Death: 07/05/1944 Service No: 14968V…

Lieutenant Backeberg , were killed by strikers concealed in the leafy branches of surrounding trees. I remember hearing as a small boy, from Captain McCalgan, who was in charge of the party that Bertie was stuck by a ke…

ETHELBERT GUY: Uncle Bertie had looks and personality on his side, but his life was interrupted by the first World War, and ended by a really minor struggle for dominance in South Africa in 1922 when he was still compar…

Name: BAMBURY, HERBERT ALFRED Initials: H A Nationality: South African Rank: Private Regiment/Service: South African Infantry Unit Text: "A" Coy. 4th Regt. Force: --> Age: 19 Date of Death: 18/07/1916 Service No: 1172 A…

Bujumbura - Preliminary investigations into the murder of a South African soldier = serving in a protection force for politicians in Burundi showed that he had been strangled, a Burundian military official said on Satur…

"Arie" van Onselen was killed with Henry Rittenberg [

Die kinders van president Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk en Hester Cecilia Roos 1. Johannes Antonie van Niekerk, gebore op president GJ van Niekerk se plaas Niekerksrustnaby Schweizer-Reneke in circa 1870 en hy sneuwel op 2…

STODART, JAMES (1849-1922), merchant and politician, was born on 15 September 1849 in Edinburgh, son of James Dickson Stodart, accountant, and his wife Maria Louisa Margaretha, n?e Meincke. The family migrated to Melbou…

When War broke out, Henry’s younger brother, Archibald, enlisted and was sent out to South Africa too. He must have been about 18 years old then. On June 19th 1901, Archie wrote this letter to Henry (his brother): “7 Co…

James Pigott Shuckburgh was born 26 September 1872, the third son, and fourth child (of the eventual seven children) of Captain Charles Stewkley Shuckburgh, RN and Elizabeth Tomlinson. Very little of his chilhood is kno…

Military History Journal Vol 2 No 2 - December 1971 THE GERMAN COMMANDO IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR OF 1899-1902 Neville Gomm Editor's Note -- In Vol. 1, No. 2 of the Military History Journal, Mr Don Forsyth wrote, in his…

SCHIEL, Adolf Friedrich. Official and Officer, Born Frankfurt Germany 19/12/1858 Died Bad Reichenhall, Germany 08/08/1903. After his training the German cavalry and artillery he landed at Durban in 1879. After working o…

G. Henry (Harry) Alban Russell (Born 1879) Private G. Henry. A. 'Harry' RUSSELL No.6420 Thorneycroft Mounted Infantry. Killed in Action in the Battle of Spioenkop, 24 Jan 1900 in a failed and disastrous British attempt…

Henry was killed by the English on 2 Oct 1900 near Kirkwood in the Eastern Cape ? 55 km from Uitenhage. He was murdered with Arie van Onselen[

Joseph Ponsonby was born 24 Feb 1868 in Dumbarton, Scotland, the youngest of ten children of John & Helen (Docherty) Ponsonby. John Ponsonby had immigrated with a brother from Co Donegal, Ireland in the early 1840s, and…

Lieutenant-Colonel William MCCARTHY-O'LEARY of Coomlagane, Co. Cork, the Son of J. McCarthey-O'Leary ex-High Sheriff of Cork, was born January 1849 in Cork, Ireland. He served in the Boer War with the 1st Battalion Sout…

LIFE OF TROOPER REGINALD COTTENHAM LUXFORD NATAL TROOP. The 1881 census lists Reginald C Luxford born 27 th June1870 Natal South Africa as age 11, scholar and living with his grandfather George C Luxford at Higham House…

Individual Report for Auguste Henry LORENTZ Individual Summary: Auguste Henry LORENTZ Sex: Male Father: Auguste LORENTZ Mother: Ann LAWRENCE Individual Facts: Birth: Abt. Jun 1868 in Pimlico, Middlesex Census: 1871 in 4…

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The 2nd Battalion The Worcester Regiment returned to England from Bermuda in November 1899. On the 13th December 170 reservists rejoined, 2851 Private Arthur Lammas was probably one of these and was assigned to E compan…

"Stephen Hilgen was killed at Houtnek on 30th April, 1900, his 18th birthday. His initial has been mistranscribed as 'G' on the SADF database, but he was the only Hilgen on the Nominal Roll of Kitchener's Horse. His bur…

L.S Amery's The Times History of South Africa, Vol 5 pp432-442 describes the Battle of Tweefontein / Groenkop. "Gunner Owen Hassett of the Royal Field Artillery was killed in action on 25th December 1901 at Tweefontein,…

Extract from South Lancashire regimental chronicles “Forty year a soldier” G.H.Ingram About the 10th October 1901( note: should read 1900 ), a commando of Boers were located about seven miles out at a place called Grysk…

(Queens South Africa Medal (for the Boer War of 1899-1902)) We record with profound regret the death from enteric fever at Karee near Bloemfontein on the 15 th of May, of Private GEORGE EDWARD HALFORD., Mounted Infantry…

Arthur Dredge was a Trooper (No 4598) with the Isle of Wight troop, Hampshire Carbiniers Yeomanry, (According to the National Monuments Council he was with The 41st Company Imperial Yeomanry), who came out to fight in t…

On 15 September 1914 an old comrade General C.F. Beyers , Commandant-General of the armed forces, resigned his commission and sent his car to fetch De la Rey from Johannesburg to Pretoria as he wished to consult with hi…

Extract from South Lancashire regimental chronicles “Forty year a soldier” G.H.Ingram About the 10th October 1901( note: should read 1900 ), a commando of Boers were located about seven miles out at a place called Grysk…

On the 30th, at the battle of Houtnek, the regiment, with great boldness and skill, seized Thoba Mountain, and it was during the enemy's attempt to regain this commanding position that a party of about 12 Gordon Highlan…

The South African Military History Society Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging Military History Journal Vol 9 No 6 - December 1994 (incorporating Museum Review) THE OTHER VLAKFONTEIN An action in the Anglo-Bo…

What follows is a letter found by Prof John Bottomley and the ex-curator of the Lichtenburg Museum. November 1900 Mrs Aberline Australia After waiting for a month, at last I have obtained your address. I thought you mig…