by Allan Gordon | Feb 6, 2020 | Anniversaries, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General Arthur Singleton Wynne died on 6 February 1936 at the age of 89. After the Battle of Spioen Kop, where General Woodgate was killed, Wynne was given command of the 11 Infantry Brigade. This Brigade was heavily involved in the Battle of Tugela...
by Patrick Armstrong | Feb 5, 2020 | Battles, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
General Buller was soundly defeated in his first two attempts to relieve the Ladysmith siege; first at Colenso on 15 December 1899 and then at Spioen Kop on 24 January 1900. He incurred over 3 000 casualties and the Boers only a few hundred. Buller’s third...
by Patrick Armstrong | Feb 5, 2020 | Activities, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
Guided by National Scouts, part of Colonels Kekewich and Hickie’s force, consisting of 634 men with a pom-pom, under Major H.P. Leader, surprised a laager of Commandant Sarel Alberts at Gruisfontein, 24 km east of Lichtenburg. The Boers’ losses were eight men...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 4, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Piet Cronje died on 4 February 1911, aged 74. He was a general in both the Anglo-Boer War, 1880–1881 and the South African War, 1899–1902. He was also in command of the force that rounded up the Jameson raiders at Doornkop on 2 January 1896. He was defeated at the...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 3, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Christiaan de Wet died on 3 February 1922, aged 67. He fought in the first Anglo-Boer War, 1880-1881 and was present at the Battle of Majuba. In the South African War 1899-1902 he saw action, initially in Natal, before moving to the Northern Cape. Early in 1900 he was...
