by Allan Gordon | Mar 5, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General Arthur Singleton Wynne was born on 5 March 1846. He served in the South African War and was given command of the 11th Infantry Brigade when General Woodgate was killed at the Battle of Spioen Kop. His brigade was very active during the Battle of...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 4, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General Hector McDonald, or ‘Fighting Mac’ as he was more commonly known, was born on 4 March 1853. He served in the First Boer War (1880–81), and at the Battle of Majuba Hill. The Boer General Joubert, after arresting McDonald, gave him back his sword, after...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 4, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 4 March 1900 a British force commanded by Brigadier-General Brabant attacked a Commando of Boers at Labuschagne’s Nek. Labuschagne’s Nek is in the Eastern Cape near the town of Dordrecht, and after the Battle of Stormberg (which is in the same area) in...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 1, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
1 March 1900, Ladysmith, after 118 days of being besieged, was finally relieved. The Boers had fired the last shell from the Long Tom on Bulwana Hill before dismantling it and preparing it for the move. Boer convoys had been seen moving from their camps around...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 1, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Arthur Henry Paget was born on 1 March 1851. He saw action in the South African War and was in command of a Division in the Relief of Kimberley.
by Allan Gordon | Feb 28, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Edmond Knox was born on this day. During the South African War he was part of the force that relieved Kimberley. Thereafter he was at Paardeberg where he was wounded on 18 February 1900.
