by Allan Gordon | Oct 21, 2020 | Anniversaries, Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
Whilst the Boers were attacking the British garrison at Dundee (Battle of Talana), a Boer force under General Johannes Kock occupied the railway station at Elandslaagte cutting the communications between the main British force at Ladysmith and Dundee. Elandslaagte was...
by Allan Gordon | Oct 20, 2020 | Anniversaries, Battles, South African War 1899 - 1902
The Battle of Talana, which was the first set piece battle of the South African War (1899-1902) was fought just outside Dundee in Natal on 20 October 1899. At dawn Boer Commandos had occupied the hills of Talana and Impati north of Dundee. The British infantry, on...
by Allan Gordon | Oct 20, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger died on 20 October 1930 aged 60. At the outbreak of the South African War (1899-1902) he was a burgher in the Rouxville Commando and saw action at the Battles of Stormberg and Sanna’s Post. When the guerrilla phase of the war commenced...
by Allan Gordon | Oct 19, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Denys Reitz died on 19 October 1944 in London, aged 62. At the outbreak of the South African War (1899-1902) Reitz was 17 and considered too young to take up arms against the British. President Paul Kruger intervened and he joined General Piet Joubert’s forces in...
by Allan Gordon | Oct 17, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Brenton von Donop died on 17 October 1941 aged 81. He attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in January 1880. During the South African War (1899-1902) he commanded the...
by Allan Gordon | Oct 12, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton died on 12 October 1947 aged 94. During the First Boer War he was present at the Battle of Majuba, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Boers. He was present at the battle of Elandslaagte at the outset of the...
