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 | Jan 25, 2020 | Anglo Zulu War, Birthday, On This Day
Lieutenant Neville Josiah Aylmer Coghill was born in Dublin on 25 January 1852. On 22 January 1879, after the disaster of the Battle of Isandhlwana, Lieutenant Coghill joined another officer, Lietenant T. Melvill in trying to savethe Queen’s Colour of the...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 20, 2020 | Birthday, On This Day
Commandant-General Piet Joubert was born on 20 January 1834. In addition to being a fine soldier, he was a ‘self-taught’ lawyer and gained a reputation as an excellent attorney. When the First Boer War broke out, he was put in charge of the Boer forces and achieved...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 19, 2020 | Birthday, On This Day
Lieutenant-Colonel A.W. Thorneycroft was born on 19 January 1859 and served in the Anglo-Zulu War and in the First Boer War of 1881, where he took part in the defence of Pretoria. Thorneycroft was one of several officers sent to South Africa in 1899 to raise volunteer...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 16, 2020 | Birthday, On This Day
Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD was born on 16 January 1853. He was a Scottish British Army General who saw action in the 1st Anglo-Boer War, the South African War of 1899-1902, and commanded the Mediterranean Expeditionary...
by Allan Gordon | Jan 6, 2020 | Birthday, Events, On This Day
6 January 1856 – Birth of Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. L. Rundle who fought in the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), the 1st Anglo-Boer War (1881) and the South African War (1899-1902).
