by Allan Gordon | Jul 31, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General James Melville Babington was born on 31 July 1854 in the town of Corstorphine in Scotland. He entered the military in 1873 and in 1884 was part of the Bechuanaland Expedition under Charles Warren, gaining his first experience of Southern...
by Allan Gordon | Jul 30, 2020 | Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
In mid-July 1900, General de Wet made plans for the Boers to break out of the Brandwater Basin, in the Free State, near the town of Clarens. He had divided his men into three divisions, with orders of how, when and to where each division should proceed. De Wet, with...
by Allan Gordon | Jul 27, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Slaapkranz is a hill in the Free State, in the Fouriesburg District, where, on 27 July 1900, Major-General Clements and his force came into contact with a Boer Commando making their way from the Brandwater Basin. After a whole day of activity between the two forces,...
by Allan Gordon | Jul 27, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Colonel Beauvoir de Lisle was born in Guernsey on 27 July 1864. During the Second Boer War he commanded the Australian Brigade, which was a mobile column comprising men from various Australian Regiments. He was severely wounded on a number of occasions. Towards the...
by Allan Gordon | Jul 26, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Manie (christened Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz was born in Kimberley on 26 July 1876. He became a ZAR citizen when he fought against the Jameson Raiders, and then joined the ZARPS. At the outbreak of the South African War (1899-1902) he joined the Boksburg Commando and...
