by Allan Gordon | Dec 3, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General William Forbes Gatacre was born at Herbertshire Castle, near Stirling, Scotland, on 3 December 1843. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, was posted to the 77th Foot in 1862, and sent to India. At the outbreak of the South...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 30, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. He was a British statesman, army officer, journalist and writer. During the South African War (1899 – 1902) he...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 29, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Brigadier-General Malcolm Orme Little was born on 29 November 1857 in Middlesex, England. In the South African War (1899-1902) his regiment, the 9th Lancers formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and took part in the Battles of Modder River, Magersfontein, Relief of...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 19, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lucas Johannes Meyer was born on 19 November 1846. He was the grandson of a Voortrekker leader and spent his early life in northern Natal. At the Battle of Ingogo, during the First Anglo-Boer War he was badly wounded and didn’t take part in the Battle of Majuba. After...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 7, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Bindon Blood was born on 7 November 1842 in Jedburgh, Scotland. He is reported to have been related to Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671. Blood was commissioned in 1860 in the Royal Engineers and spent some time in...
by Allan Gordon | Oct 28, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General Neville Gerald Lyttleton was born on 28 October 1845 in Hagley, Worcestershire, in the UK and educated at Eton. He was commissioned as a junior officer into the Rifle Brigade in January 1865. He saw service in the South African War (1899-1902) as...
