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Remembering the Foreign Volunteers
1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War

Remembering the Foreign Volunteers

Remembering the Foreign Volunteers: Jacob Arnhold, Jannie Roggeband, Hermanus Jacob Coster, Cornelis Plokhooy and Jack Hindon

Anglo Boer War: Remembering the Foreign Volunteers (3)
1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War

Anglo Boer War: Remembering the Foreign Volunteers (3)

In this article we remember the following foreign volunteers fought on the Boer side: Andries Smorenburg, Colonel de Villebois-Mareuil and Count Harra von Zeppelin. A short life description of each is given.

1899 – 1902: Anglo Boer War Memorial Pietermaritzburg to Natal Police & Natal Troops
1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War

1899 – 1902: Anglo Boer War Memorial Pietermaritzburg to Natal Police & Natal Troops

1899 – 1902: Anglo Boer War Memorial Pietermaritzburg to Natal Police & Natal Troops - Dicription: "The Anglo Boer war Memorial in Pietermaritzburg is surmounted by a large angel. The eight panels contain, apart from the inscriptions, with the names of the fallen, symbolic scenes. The main legend on the octagonal base commemorates the Volunteers, Natal Police and other Natal Colonists who died for their sovereign and country. The sculptor was George E. Wade of London".

Bovenplaas and the boyhood of Jan Smuts
1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War

Bovenplaas and the boyhood of Jan Smuts

Bovenplaas and the boyhood of General JC "Jan" Smuts. He first went to school at the age of 12. Before then, his teachers were his parents, their farmworkers, and Mother Nature …

CHURCHILL AND THE ZARP’s
1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War

CHURCHILL AND THE ZARP’s

A photo-essay of the arrest of Sir Winston Churchill at Chievely in the Natal Colony and his interaction with the Zarps. His detention and successful escape from Pretoria and return to Durban via Lourenco Marques.