Northern Transvaal Commando information

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

Pretoria East Commando Quaggapoort Commando Schanskop Commando Wonderboom Commando Officer in Command of Northern Transvaal Command on Friday 2 October 1964...

1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration)...

served in the operational areas of South West Africa and the Far Northern Transvaal. The Regiment continued to wear the infantry Bok up to 1989 when a...

A commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating...

Group of the Northern Transvaal Command. It was then placed under the command of Group 12 HQ at Ermelo. This unit, along with all other Commando units was...

African Territorial Reserve. This commando was established on the farm Tweefontein near Belfast in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) in 1890. It was...

Northern Transvaal Command. By then its HQ had moved to the old German School building in Skinner Street, Pretoria. Over the years several commando units...

first Boksburg Commando was originally mobilised in 1899 and moved to the Transvaal border. When the Anglo Boer war was declared this commando crossed the...

in Natal, but was later moved to Phalaborwa in the Transvaal province. 6 Reconnaissance Commando (consisting of former Rhodesian Special Air Service)...

directly responsible to Chief of Army. In 1984 Northern Transvaal Command was subdivided and Eastern Transvaal Command (Nelspruit) and Far North Command (Pietersburg)...

Territorial Reserve. The Bloemhof Commando was originally established as a commando of the South African Republic (Transvaal) This unit can trace its heritage...

Northern Natal 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 South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR; or Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The republics did not provide for the separation...

Pietershoogte During the guerilla phase of the war in the Western Transvaal, this commando was also involved in: Battle of Vlakfontein Battle of Moedswil...

Territorial Reserve. The Bethal Commando was originally established as a commando of the South African Republic (Transvaal) The commando fought in the Second Boer...

party of the Dorsland Trek starting out in May 1874 from the Transvaal. He grew up the northern part of what is now Namibia, where his father was an elephant...

event in the press. He became senior staff officer for operations at Northern Transvaal Command and commanded 44 Parachute Brigade from 24 September 1980...

Western Transvaal under the direction of Ian Hamilton. The opportunity the British were waiting for arose on 11 April 1902 at Rooiwal, where a commando led...

Artillery. Under the SADF, Northern Transvaal Command was originally split into an eastern and western sector while Northern Cape had to be created from...

Bapedi /bæˈpɛdi/, also known as the Sotho, Basotho, Northern Sotho, Basotho ba Lebowa, Transvaal Sotho, Marota, or Dikgoshi. Are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic...

Schanskop 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...

Boer War, initially joining the Krugersdorp Commando, continuing to fight under Lucas Meyer in Northern Natal, and later as a general commanding and...

protection in the Western Transvaal, this commando together with Stellaland, Kalahari, Christiana, Bloemhof and De La Rey Commandos formed a joint operational...

can trace its origins as part of the Waterberg Commando to just before the Anglo Boer War as the Transvaal Republic became more nervous of its British adversaries...

protection in the Western Transvaal, this commando together with Stellaland, Kalahari, Bloemhof, Schweizer-Reneke and De La Rey Commandos formed a joint operational...

north-western Transvaal. Battles fought at Nooitgedacht, Buffelspoort, and Hekpoort were unsuccessful at capturing the Boer Commandos, and the main British...