by Hennie Heymans | Aug 11, 2025 | 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, SA Military History, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SAP King's Rest Durban, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Union Defence Force
CONSTABLE B CELE: SOUTH AFRICAN WW2 VETERAN (UNION DEFENCE FORCE) Moonlight and Memory: A Patrol in the Summer of ’65 Brig Hennie Heymans It was the summer of 1965. We reported for the night shift—21:45 to 06:00 the next morning. Sergeant W. “Tandjies” van der Merwe,...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | German Army, Rhodesian Army, SA Air Force, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
CAPTAIN KEITH COSTER, SAAF: PRISONER OF WAR: PART I Gerry van Tond (© text) Lieutenant-General Keith Coster ICD, OBE, SSAS, was a South African Air Force and army officer who rose to command the Rhodesian Army from 1968 to 1972. In May 1937, Coster enlisted in the...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, German Army, Military writers & authors, Rhodesian Conflict, SA Air Force, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Union Defence Force
CAPTAIN KEITH COSTER, SAAF: PRISONER OF WAR: PART II (FINAL) Gerry van Tonder (© text) Continued from Part I, in which Lieutenant General Keith Coster, Commander of the Rhodesian Army, 1968–72, relates his experiences as a World War Two prisoner of war. Serving at the...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 6, 2025 | SA War Graves / SA Oorlogsgrafte, South African Commonwealth War casualties buried across the World –, South African Commonwealth War casualties buried across the World – Part Eighty-Nine., SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH WAR CASUALTIES BURIED ACROSS THE WORLD – PART NINETY-ONE. 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...
by Hennie Heymans | Aug 4, 2025 | 1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War, Foreign Volunteers, Military History, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
ANGLO BOER WAR: REMEMBERING THE FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS (2) Jennifer Bosch Anna Sofia Wilhelmina Lindblom – (Sweden) Anna Lindblom in the magazine Hvar 8 dag, nr 35, 1900. Photographer unknown. Image source- Svenskt Porträttarkiv CC-BY-SA 4.0 Anna Sofia Wilhelmina...
by David Blyth | Jul 25, 2025 | SA Army, SA Defence Force / Weermag, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Eulogy Maj Gen Lou Oosthuizen SD, SM, MMM (SA Army) “Oosie”: A Tribute by Brig Gen Tony Savides (SA Army, Retired) I am deeply saddened by his passing, but I am also humbled that it had been my privilege to have known him, to have worked with him, learnt...