by Allan Gordon | Jan 19, 2021 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Whitelaw Thorneycroft was born on 19 January 1859 in Wolverhampton in the UK. He saw action in the Anglo-Zulu War and in the First Boer War of 1881 where he was involved in the Defence of Pretoria. When the British anticipated the outbreak...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 16, 2021 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton was born on 16 January 1853 and, having completed his schooling, attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, where he received a commission as an infantry officer in 1871. During the First Boer War he saw action...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 15, 2021 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Commandant Johannes Cornelius Jacobus Lotter was born in Pearston, a town midway between Graaff-Reinet and Somerset East in the Eastern Cape on 15 January 1875. The commando under his leadership became one of the most brutal and ill-disciplined guerrilla commandos in...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 6, 2021 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Hugh Macleod Leslie Rundle was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, in the UK on 6 January 1856. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1876 and saw action in South Africa in the Zulu War in 1879 and the First Boer War of 1881. He arrived in South...
by Allan Gordon | Dec 7, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Redvers Buller was born in Devon in England on 7 December 1839. He was educated at Eton and started his military career in the 60th Rifles. During the Anglo-Zulu War he was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery at the battle of Hlobane. At the outbreak of the South...
