In 1899, Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada C-007986, Montreal soldiers of C Company South African ...
Her opportunity came in South Africa when her husband was appointed aide-de-camp to Baden Powell. The Daily Mail approached her to be a war correspondent for the Boer War, after her nephew ...
They had been seized by British troops, who were about to open hostilities in the Empire’s second war against the Boer Republic of South Africa. They improvised. Stamping the date – 1899 for the ...
Diversity is the hallmark of South Africa. With an incredible array of contrasts, this country is known for its many ...
Constand Viljoen, the former head of the South African ... colours of Africa’s landscapes. Viljoen was born on October 1933 on a farm in Standerton. Viljoen’s paternal grandfather, a deeply religious ...
Colonel A.K. Miller CBE, chairman of the Stirling Castle-based museum, will lead the talk, titled "The 91st’s Service in the South African (Boer) War 1899-1902." He will explore how the regiment's ...
On 24th January 1900 during the Second Boer War, in an area about the size of London’s Trafalgar Square, the flat top of a South African mountain became the ... Fusiliers on the right (east) flank.
The Auckland Regatta has been held every year since, except for 1900, when it was cancelled due to the South African Boer War. Kelly Makiha is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua ...
Her third official visit to Ireland in 1861 included four days in Co Kerry, which put the region on the international map as a holiday ... tool for the Boer War in South Africa.