by Allan Gordon | Apr 30, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
After the Siege of Wepener, the Boers were moving northwards, with the British in pursuit. The Boers had reached Thaba Nchu, a mountainous area, some 60 km east of Bloemfontein. Tobo Mountain (referred to as Thaba in Captain Towse’s V.C. citation) was well defended by...
by Allan Gordon | Apr 25, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 25 April 1900 Colonel Ian Hamilton left Sannah’s Post to join up with Major-General French’s force who were on their way to Thaba Nchu to cut off the Boers progress after their evacuation from Wepener. Israel’s Poort was a farm on the road between Bloemfontein...
by Allan Gordon | Apr 24, 2020 | Battles, Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
On this day the Siege of Wepener, which had lasted for 16 days, was about to be lifted. The Boer Commandos who supported General de Wet’s force of over 6 000 Boers were under the command of Commandants Wessels, Haasbroek, de Villiers and Olivier, and during the...
by Allan Gordon | Apr 23, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Michael Frederic Rimington was born on this day in 1858 and was sent to South Africa a few months before the outbreak of the South African War. He raised a local unit of irregular mounted men who were known as Rimington’s Guides. The unit was involved in the Relief of...
by Allan Gordon | Apr 22, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
Neither the Boers or the British were making any ‘headway’ at the engagement at Wakkerstroom (refer Blog 20 April). On 22 April 1900 the Derbyshire’s were making their way to the shelter of a farm, when Corporal Beets realised a fellow soldier had been wounded. He...
