by Hennie Heymans | Sep 17, 2025 | Establishment & Generals in SAPS, Number of Generals, SA Military History, SANDF, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE
The General’s Rank – Why Major General Is Lower Than Lieutenant General – Including Colonel-General, Captain-General, and South African Variants THE GENERAL’S RANK – WHY MAJOR GENERAL IS LOWER THAN LIEUTENANT GENERAL: INCLUDING COLONEL-GENERAL, CAPTAIN-GENERAL,...
by Hennie Heymans | Sep 9, 2025 | 1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War, Foreign Volunteers, Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
Anglo Boer War: Boer Forces: Remembering the Foreign Volunteers No 5 ANGLO BOER WAR: REMEMBERING THE FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS Jennifer Bosch GIUSEPPE CAMILLO PIETRO RICHIARDI (Italian by birth) At its height the Italian Scouts numbered around 200 members who with their...
by Hennie Heymans | Sep 9, 2025 | Military History, South African Commonwealth War casualties buried across the World –, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
SOUTH AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH WAR CASUALTIES BURIED ACROSS THE WORLD – PART NINETY-TWO. 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 | Sep 7, 2025 | 1939 - 1945 2nd WW, SA Military History, SAP Brigade, SAP History / Geskiedenis, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
World War2: Grave Stone: No SAP198028 Constable JK Roberts (SAP Brigade): Cracow, Poland. GRAVE STONE: CONSTABLE JK ROBERTS (SAP BRIGADE) Wojciech Musial (From Poland) Mr Wojciech Musial from Poland contacted me and sent the following photo: No 20169 Constable JK...
by Hennie Heymans | Sep 7, 2025 | 1899 - 1902 Anglo Boer War, Foreign Volunteers, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED, Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Politie (Zarp)
Remembering the Foreign Volunteers REMEMBERING THE FOREIGN VOLUNTEERS – 4 Jennifer Bosch President Kruger’s Jew: Jacob Arnhold The boy was just fourteen when he first donned a cadet’s uniform in Potsdam. Jacob Arnhold, born in Leipzig in 1871, had already known...
by Hennie Heymans | Sep 3, 2025 | 1879 Zulu Wars, British Army in Colonial South Africa, Foreign Armies / Buitelandse Weermagte, Isandhlwana, Isandhlwana, Louis Napoleon, Military History, Military Personalities, Prince Imperial, Rorke's Drift, SA Military History, SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES HISTORY PRESERVED
2010: A Photo Album of a Visit to the Grave of Prince Imperial A PHOTO ALBUM OF A VISIT TO THE GRAVE OF PRINCE IMPERIAL A Photo-essay by Hennie Heymans Photo: The Mounted Police of Natal by Holt The scene more or less where the incident took place Photo: The Nongqai...
