by Allan Gordon | Sep 1, 2020 | Anniversaries, Birthday, South African War 1899 - 1902
Paul Sanford Methuen was born on 1 September 1845 and was educated at Eton College. At the outbreak of the South African War (1899-1902) he was appointed General Officer Commanding the 1st Division, responsible for the Relief of Kimberley. Having fought the battles at...
by Allan Gordon | Aug 27, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
General Louis Botha died of heart failure at his home following an attack of Spanish influenza on 27 August 1919. He was 56. Winston Churchill paid the following tribute to General Botha – “The three most famous generals I have known in my life won no...
by Allan Gordon | Aug 23, 2020 | Anniversaries, Events, South African War 1899 - 1902
On 23 August 1900 Private William Edward Heaton of the Liverpool Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross. General Buller was advancing towards the eventual battle of Bergendal, when two companies of the Liverpool Regiment were cut off from the main force and subjected...
by Allan Gordon | Aug 8, 2020 | Anniversaries, Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Boer General Lukas Meyer was a member of the ZAR Volksraad and at times was sympathetic to the case of the Uitlanders. He fought in the first action of the South African War at Talana, but due to ill health was withdrawn from active service after the Battles in the...
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 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...
