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This notice invites contributions of information, documents, and photographs relating to the history of rugby in the South African Forces prior to 1995. The aim is to preserve, document, and present this sporting heritage for future research and publication.
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH WAR CASUALTIES BURIED ACROSS THE WORLD – PART NINETY. By Captain (SAN) Charles Ross (SA Navy Retired) South Africans participated in almost every war theatre during the First and Second World Wars. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Data Base 7 290 (includes 607 unknown) First World War casualties and 9 986 (includes 84 unknown) Second World War casualties are buried in 1 207 cemeteries. In contrast, 2 959 First World War and 2 005 Second World War casualties are commemorated on 48 memorials. This does not include the more than 2 700 South Africans not recently commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. A new memorial, Cape Town Labour Corps has been constructed in the Gardens in Cape Town and was unveiled by HRH Princess Royal on 22 January 2025.
South African Commonwealth War casualties buried across the World – Part Eighty-Nine.
Sebastiaan Jakobus Paulus van der Merwe vertel 'n Brandewyn op Parade-storie aan Chris Botha.
By August 1900, ten months after the outbreak of hostilities between British forces and those of the Transvaal and Orange Free State Boer republics in South Africa, Her Majesty’s troops were starting to gain the ascendency across the subcon
Now this chap poses an interesting figure in South African Military history - his name is Lt. Hellmut von Liepzig (18 July 1921 — 24 October 2016). He was Brandenburger officer (German special forces). He joined the DAK (German Africa Corps
Roy Daryl Allen was born in the Moedersbond hospital in Pretoria on 15 February 1948. His grandfather was an Australian who had come out to South Africa during the Boer War, to fight for the British. The Allen family moved to Rhodesia for a
