Klerksdorp Commando information

Klerksdorp Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the...

The Boer Commandos or "Kommandos" were volunteer military units of guerilla militia organized by the Boer people of South Africa. From this came the term...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

an entrenched British hillside position in the valley of Rooiwal, near Klerksdorp in the Western Transvaal. The Boers were attempting to break out of a...

(75 mi) west-southwest of Johannesburg and 45 km (28 mi) east-northeast of Klerksdorp. Several theories exist about the origin of the city's name. According...

Eastern Cape, South Africa, 14 December 1820 – British concentration camp Klerksdorp, 20 December 1901) and Wilhelmina Jacoba Pieterse (Cradock, Eastern Cape...

Hertzog, arrived at Zendelingsfontein, De la Rey's headquarters near Klerksdorp, to consult De la Rey's physician about an eye ailment. Van Rensburg was...

with safe passage guaranteed by the British, the Boer leadership met at Klerksdorp, Transvaal. Present were Marthinus Steyn, Free State president and Schalk...

second-in-command after Kitchener, to move his column from Vryburg to Klerksdorp to deal with De La Rey. On the morning of 7 March 1902, the Boers attacked...

denoted as trekboers. The Boers formed loose militias, which they termed commandos, and forged alliances with Khoisan peoples to repel Xhosa raids. Both...

Waterkloof, Witbank and Wonderboom Carletonville, Florida, Helderkruin, Klerksdorp, Krugersdorp, Lichtenburg, Losberg, Maraisburg, Potchefstroom, Randfontein...

Westhuizen. In 1874 he lived at the farm Witpoort in the district of Klerksdorp, South African Republic. Liebenberg took part in several military actions...

the war. Marais's mother, together with her family, was interned at the Klerksdorp concentration camp. His paternal grandmother was the leader of a group...

rejected the idea. Lord Kitchener requested that De la Rey meet with him at Klerksdorp on 11 March 1902 for a parley. The two enemies formed a bond of friendship...

labourers extending the blockhouse line from Klerksdorp to Ventersdorp under threat from Liebenberg's Commando. On 13 November the column's Yeomanry screen...

north of Klerksdorp, patrolling and denying the Boer commandos food. They were also involved in the capture of a convoy of Koos de la Rey's commando in March...

14,276 90.19 Kensington 1,824 16.54 9,207 83.46 15 11,046 12,130 91.06 Klerksdorp 9,452 70.17 4,018 29.83 19 13,489 15,192 88.79 Krugersdorp 7,107 63.95...

wear open collars with shirt and tie. Australians and New Zealanders at Klerksdorp on 24 March 1901. Troops of 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse...

Koos de la Rey's 84-year-old mother is sent to a concentration camp at Klerksdorp. September 17 – Commandant-General Louis Botha and General Cecil "Cherry"...

in the Transvaal. The unit had company headquarters at Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp and Ventersdorp, with a support company at Brits. Mrs J E Morkel, daughter...

War I. These highly mobile mounted infantry formed the basis of the Boer Commando, which was the primary organisational unit of the Boers. At the outbreak...

defeat of the Afrikaner republics still the Boers held out, forming small commando units and conducting a campaign of guerrilla warfare to disrupt British...