by Allan Gordon | Dec 3, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General William Forbes Gatacre was born at Herbertshire Castle, near Stirling, Scotland, on 3 December 1843. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, was posted to the 77th Foot in 1862, and sent to India. At the outbreak of the South...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 30, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. He was a British statesman, army officer, journalist and writer. During the South African War (1899 – 1902) he...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 29, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Brigadier-General Malcolm Orme Little was born on 29 November 1857 in Middlesex, England. In the South African War (1899-1902) his regiment, the 9th Lancers formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and took part in the Battles of Modder River, Magersfontein, Relief of...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 28, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
President Marthinus Theunis Steyn died whilst addressing a meeting, suffering a heart attack, on 28 November 1916, aged 59. His early education was at a farm school, followed by him graduating from Grey College in Bloemfontein. He then studied law at Leiden University...
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...
