Interesting Reads

We Wander the Battlefields is the fruit of Midge Carter’s life-long passion for the history of the Anglo-Boer and Zulu … Read More

GUNNER FREDERICK HENRY BRADLEY V.C. Although suffering from the worst drought in decades, one hopes that the rainy season is … Read More

THE CAPTURE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL – THE ARMOURED TRAIN INCIDENT. 15 NOVEMBER 1899. “I have had, in the last four … Read More

Twice in less than 23 years, Natal was saved from invasion by the gallant stands made by two small, vastly … Read More

The story of Rorke’s Drift has often been told and perhaps nowhere so graphically as by Donald R. Morris in … Read More

This article is the text of a talk to the S.A. Military History Society by Mr Alf Wade, of Vryheid, … Read More

One of the most poignant aspects of the Zulu War is the relatively small number of lonely graves scattered about … Read More

In ‘The Red Soldier’ my main purpose was to illustrate the first-hand evidence that lies in a specific course of … Read More

From his service in South Africa over a broken period of eight years, the impression which emerges of Anthony William … Read More

Battles such as Colenso, Ladysmith, Nicholson’s Nek, Spioenkop and others of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 have consistendy captured the … Read More

Simeon Kambula had grown up in Edendale, the Methodist Mission Station near Pietermaritzburg. His father, Elijah Kambula had served as … Read More