by Hennie Heymans | Jul 3, 2025 | SA Military History, 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte, SAP Brigade, SAP History / Geskiedenis, Union Defence Force (1912)
FOLLOW UP: GRAVE: J “PIET” ZULU Grave: Private J Zulu: N12401: Native Military Corps: S.A Forces, Tobruk. Brig HB Heymans (SAP – Ret) & Capt C Ross (SA Navy – Ret) Refer to:...
by Hennie Heymans | Jun 28, 2025 | 2nd South African Division, 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, Military History, SA Military History, SAP Brigade, SAP Colours - Vaandel, SAP Commissioners, SAP History / Geskiedenis
WW2: TO EVERY MEMBER OF 1 SAP Brig HB Heymans 1 SAP 2 SA Div 30 Corps Brig FW Cooper, DSO – later honorary Major-General – and in life Quartermaster of the SA Police. Brig Hayton – Brigadier Alexander Alfred Hayton VD DSO (1894 – 1977 (aged 82–83)) was a...
by Hennie Heymans | Jun 26, 2025 | Military History, 1914 - 1918 WW1, Military Mascots, SA Military History
JACKIE THE BABOON JACKIE, BILLY AND DINKS: THE BABOON, THE BOLD AND THE IMMORTAL © Dirk Danschutter, MMSc Degreed in Medical Sciences and in Medico-Social Sciences Summary In his historiographic review on South African Service Pets (in 1956), HH Curson explained that...
by Hennie Heymans | Jun 25, 2025 | Transvaal Police (1900 - 1910), 1914 Rebellion, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP Pretoria Central & Barracks
DEMOLITION: OLD SAP PRETORIA CENTRAL 1971: SAP PRETORIA: SLOPING: GESKIEDKUNDIGE OU KASERNE Brig HB Heymans (SAP – Afgetree). In die nuus van Noord-Transvaal lees ons: “Met die sloping van Ou Kaserne, Pretoriusstraat, Pretoria, het ‘n geskiedkundige plek nou sommer so...
by Hennie Heymans | Jun 24, 2025 | SA Military History, 1950 Funeral Gen JC Smuts, Bosluise, Minister of Defence, Ministers of Justice / Police / Law & Order, Mounted Div - Berede Afd.
GENERAL SMUTS AND THE NONGQAI A PICTORIAL ESSAY OF SOME PHOTOGRAPHS THAT APPEARED IN THE NONGQAI OF GENERAL JC SMUTS Brig HB Heymans (SAP – Ret) In 2007 I had the opportunity to go through some very old Nongqai’s dated from 1907 which were stored in the police...
by Hennie Heymans | Jun 23, 2025 | SA Military History, South African Commonwealth War casualties buried across the World – Part Eighty-Nine.
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH WAR CASUALTIES BURIED ACROSS THE WORLD – PART EIGHTY-NINE. 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...
