by Allan Gordon | Nov 25, 2020 | Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Major-General Henry Edward Colvile was killed in a motor cycle accident on 25 November 1907, aged 55. He served in the South African War (1899-1902), commanding the Guards Brigade at the Battle of Modder River and took part in the Battle of Magersfontein. Late in May...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 25, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
After the Battle of Belmont (23 November 1899), the British troops spent the night in camp whilst the Royal Engineers repaired the railway line. On the afternoon of 24 November 1899, Methuen’s force continued north towards the besieged town of Kimberley, marching...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 23, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Belmont was a little village in the Northern Cape, about 80 km south of Kimberley. The Battle of Belmont was an engagement where the British under Lord Methuen assaulted a Boer position on Belmont kopje on the way to relieving Kimberley. The Boers were led by...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 22, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Dewetsdorp is a town in the Free State, 75 km south west of Bloemfontein. From April to November 1900 the British occupied the town. However, on 19 November the town was invested by Boer commandos under General de Wet. On 21 November the Boers overpowered a British...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 21, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
James Barry Munnick Hertzog died on 21 November 1942 at the age of 76. He was a Boer General during the South African War (1899-1902) who became Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. Throughout his life he encouraged the development of...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 20, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Henry Mcleod Leslie Rundle died on 20 November 1934 aged 78. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1876 and saw service in South Africa in the Zulu War in 1879 and in the First Boer War of 1881. He landed in Cape Town in March 1900 and...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 19, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lucas Johannes Meyer was born on 19 November 1846. He was the grandson of a Voortrekker leader and spent his early life in northern Natal. At the Battle of Ingogo, during the First Anglo-Boer War he was badly wounded and didn’t take part in the Battle of Majuba. After...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 19, 2020 | Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Balmoral is a town and railway station on the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway line. The object of the planned attack by Ben Viljoen and his commando was to capture the gun in the fort. On capturing the fort, which was manned by the East Kent regiment, no gun was found....
by Allan Gordon | Nov 14, 2020 | Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts died of pneumonia on 14 November 1914 while visiting troops fighting in France at the beginning of the First World War. He was 82 years old. Roberts fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and was awarded the Victoria Cross for...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 7, 2020 | Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Bindon Blood was born on 7 November 1842 in Jedburgh, Scotland. He is reported to have been related to Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671. Blood was commissioned in 1860 in the Royal Engineers and spent some time in...
