Battle of Colenso 15th December 1899 – Gun Sites
709 | 15th December 1899 In the early stages of the Battle of Colenso, Co.l Long advanced his gun battery … Read More
Ambleside Military Cemetery
710 | Burial site of soldiers of the 5th Irish Brigade, killed in Battle of Colenso. The Irish Brigade had … Read More
Spion Kop Battlefield
713 | 24 January 1900 Certainly the most futile and bloodiest of five battles fought in an effort to relieve … Read More
Chieveley Military Cemetery
715 | Site of No 4 Stationary Hospital. Burial place of Field Marshal Lord Roberts’s son Lt. Freddie Roberts. Turn … Read More
Battle of uThukela (Tugela) Heights
717 | 12-28 February 1900 In a massive combined operation General Buller’s troops fought numerous battles on the south bank … Read More
Scheepersnek Battlefield
721 | 20 May 1900 75 Swaziland Police and Vryheid burghers were stationed here. During a church service a Squadron … Read More
Lancaster Hill
722 | 11-12 December 1900 The hill overlooking Vryheid was occupied by 900 men of the Lancaster Regt who fortified … Read More
Capt.Pokrowski Memorial and Wall of Remembrance
723 | 25 December 1900 25 December 1900. Memorial to Polish officer in the Russian army, who died fighting in … Read More
Holkrans Battlefield
727 | 6 May 1902 Louis Botha’s Commandos desperate for food began raiding local Zulus’ cattle and crops. The abaQulusi … Read More
OU Raadsaal Vryheid
This old building has been magnificently restored and now houses a unique exhibit on the history of early Vryheid. Contact … Read More