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Military Miscellany The Battle of Suffolk Hill: a tragic engagement in the early months
of the Second Anglo-Boer War ... By Gina Shepherd and Belinda Gordon Understanding the Intelligence Community in the South African Military
environment, with a focus on SA Army Intelligence ... Compiled by
Mike Huxtable and Dave Kenny. Dr Gerrit Haarhof's Re-evaluation of Italeni - in Afrikaans Pat Irwin's fully referenced article and casualties Holkrantz May 1902 Johannes Haarhof's full article on Berrangé's Trek: The Eastern Force in
the South West Africa campaign of 1915 Dr Anne Samson's full article on [KwaZulu-]Natal in World War I Major Guy Nicolson - POW extraordinary - Musical treat Col Winsloe's account of the 1880/81 Siege of Potchefstroom Kevin Rogers MHSA (WA) on a document found in the Budesarchiv relating to orders about the defence of Tobruk Shiloh Noone on knobkieries in the Matshana Museum at Onrust River Indian (Anglo-Boer War) War Memorial (Observatory Jnb) by Eric Itzkin Wireless in the trenches - Brian Austen quoting Basil Schonland Wadley's Ionosonde - Brian Austin in Radio Bygones (Aircraft at War 100 Exhibition - 2003 Chadwick notes on Blood River; Chadwick notes on Isandlwana; Chard's report on Rorke's Drift; Anglo-Boer War battle sites near Dundee visited during May 1978 Society tour - Chadwick's notes; Major Moore's notes on Gen Louis Botha's second expedition into Natal Sep-Oct 1901.)
Items from non-Society sources: the story of the Last Post;
Bill Millin - Piping in D-Day. May Jackson Gun Le Petit Journal - French cartoons about the Anglo-Boer War
Southern African Published/related Books Professional Tour Guides of S.A. Battlefields IN SOUTH AFRICA Professional Tour Guides of S.A. Battlefields IN EUROPE South African Bookdealers who specialise in Military Subjects Links to other military history related sites
Unpublished Boer War Diaries / letters / reminiscences / photographs index to diaries
Gedenksboek of Deadwook Camp St Helena 1900-1902 by S F van Smaalen
Wireless in the Boer War by Dr B.A.Austin
Pte. Edgar Etches - 13th Hussars and South African Constabulary
Letter from Fred Page after Elands River Siege
Syd Critten, Imperial Yeomanry
Private Walter Putland
Sr K L Nealon, nee Hill
Sr Grace MacFarlane Roberts
Boer War portion of the diary of Maj Jocelyn Frederick de Fonblanque Shaw, RFA.
Alfred Robinson's record of his service as a volunteer with Durham Light Infantry,
Kitchener's Fighting Scouts and Corp of Cattle Rangers in the Second Boer War, February 1900 - December 1901
First World War Diaries
52 days at the Western Front by Dr Lewis S Robertson
Three Edkins brothers from East London in World War I
Fewster in German East Africa - Great War Diary
Lister in German East Africa - Great War Diary
The S.S. AFRIC 's first trip as a troop-ship in WWI
The story of Seth Batter Churchill, Royal Marines Artillery
Second World War Diaries
Stef Coetzee looks at his Uncle "Rosy" du Toit's SAAF career in which he was a Colonel at the age of 25.
Prof Deon Fourie asks "DYou Remember South Africa In The Second World War?"
C G van den Berg Reminiscences of ex-POW No. 2825
SS Rooseboom - sunk by Japanese I-159 in 1942
while evacuating people after fall of Singapore
Update on the sinking of SS Rooseboom
Tomalin RNVR reminiscences includes "Little ships"
Reminiscences of RH Halse, WWII POW
Radar in SA
Basil Schonland - Schonlands other Legacy by Dr B.A.Austin
General interest Diaries
South Africa's Military Presence in South West Africa 1915-1980 by Wolfgang Reith
William Wood and Dingaan
Elizabeth Russell Cameron
Ouma van den Bergh papers
The Rhodesian Corps of Signals - Through To 1980 by Dr B.A.Austin
Ross's Research
(Research on Southern Africans serving in the British Armed Forces) (Southern Africans Serving at Battle of Jutland) (The other Percy Fitzpatrick) (List of SA servicemen in British Forces in WWI)
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