by Hennie Heymans | Jul 3, 2025 | Military History, Military writers & authors, Paul Els (military author), SA Military History
PAUL ELS: SA MILITARY WRITER ELS GEE ’N STEM AAN VETERANE SE STRYD Elize Parker. Rekord 25/06/2025 (Met vergunning van Rekord) Paul J. Els skryf nie boeke om helde van soldate te maak nie. Hy skryf om die waarheid te bewaar. Sy werk is ‘n monument vir diegene...
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...
