by Allan Gordon | Feb 13, 2020 | Anglo Zulu War, Birthday, On This Day
Lieutenant-General C.F. Clery was born on 13 February 1838. He took part in the Anglo-Zulu War (1879) and was at Isandlwana. He was with Lord Chelmsford on 22 January 1879, looking for the main Zulu army, and thus missed the massacre. During the South...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 11, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Early on the morning of 11 February 1900 a British contingent under Lieutenant-Colonel de Lisle attacked a Boer position on the hills adjacent to the farm Wolvekraal. The Boers, under the command of Kommandants Hertzog and Jacobsz from the Fauriesmith Kommando turned...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 9, 2020 | Anniversaries, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902, Uncategorized
All the Australian infantry had been mounted by 6 February 1900 and the Australian Regiment, which comprised E Squadron, New South Wales Mounted Rifles, 1/Victoria Mounted Rifles, 1/South Australian Mounted Rifles, 1/West Australian Mounted Infantry and 1/Tasmanian...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 9, 2020 | Birthday, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General R.A.P. Clements was born on 9 February 1855. He enrolled in the British Army late in 1874 and saw action in South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu Wars 1877-1879. During the South African War 1899-1902, Clements was active in the Brandwater basin but is best...
by Patrick Armstrong | Feb 8, 2020 | Battles, First Anglo Boer War, On This Day
This battle, also known as the Battle of Ingogo, was fought north of Newcastle, Natal on 8 February 1881, after the Battle of Laing’s Nek. British ox-wagon supply convoys and general communication patrols on the Newcastle-Mount Prospect road were being...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 7, 2020 | Events, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 7 February 1900, 30 000 additional British troops were dispatched to South Africa.
by Allan Gordon | Feb 7, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Warren was born on 7 February 1840. In addition to being known as a military man, he was an archaeologist of Temple Mount in the Holy land. He also became Chief of Police during the latter 1880’s, in the same timeline as the Jack the...
by Allan Gordon | Feb 6, 2020 | Events, On This Day, South African War 1899 - 1902
On this day in 1902 the hunt for the Boer General, Christiaan de Wet, who had become a thorn in the side of the British, began in earnest. De Wet had evaded the pursuing forces in the Cape.
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...
