by Allan Gordon | Mar 18, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-Colonel Gough died on 18 March 1963. He was a young Lieutenant when ordered to the Natal front in 1899, having not completed the Staff College course. He served under Colonel Dundonald in the Relief of Ladysmith. During the guerrilla phase of the war he...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 17, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 17 March 1900 Commandant-General Piet Joubert died in Pretoria. A generally unknown fact was that he was a huge ‘opponent’ of President Kruger, standing against him in elections on three occasions, narrowly losing out on two of those occasions. He was in command of...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 16, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 16 March 1901 Boer Commandant Botha turned down the British offer for peace. The process had started late in February when Kitchener used Botha’s wife Annie, who was living in Pretoria with their children, as an intermediary. The British terms were conveyed...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 14, 2020 | Anniversaries, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Herbert Charles Onslow Plummer was born on 13 March 1857. At the time of the Jameson Raid he was on military duty in Cape Town and was sent to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to disarm the police force who were apparently sympathetic towards the...
by Allan Gordon | Mar 13, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 13 March 1900, Roberts’ British forces marched into Bloemfontein unopposed. To the British this was the first piece of the jigsaw puzzle – two ‘republics’ had declared war on the British Empire in 1899, and now one of their capitals was in British hands. One more...
