Brandwater basin surrender. I see this photo as British Soldiers picking out souvenirs. I'm sure many carved Mausers were taken back to Britain and the Colonies but probably because of Britain's gun laws, in later years, many would have been surrendered and destroyed.... sad

Mike the Warthog Been there...done that...

British troops pose with captured Boers after the Brandwater surrender. Of these commandos, that of Potgieter was the most important and the strongest in numbers, and the best looked after by the commandant and his Field Cornets; nearly all the burghers came from the Smithfield

Brandwater surrender, the aftermath August 1900 There was one field gun amongst the wagons: this had belonged to U Battery, R.H.A., and had been captured by the Boers at Sanna's Post; several artillery ammunition wagons were also found, which, with some of the wagons which were

Red Cross Sliver Medal Presented, 1945 The Minister of Native Affairs Major Piet van de byl standing with Fernando Cacai, after he had presented the Red Cross Silver Medal to him for exceptional bravery Cacai saved the life of a fellow African after he had been badly injured by

81 years ago Liberator KG871 of South African Air Force 31 Sqdn was shot down by AAA over Warsaw while dropping supplies for Warsaw Insurgents. Aircraft has crashed in Goledzinow on the right bank of Wisla river, with loss of Capt Nicolas van Rensburg and whole crew. #today

SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. 16 August: 1914 The tug Ludwig Wiener becomes the armed patrol vessel HMS Afrikander. Built on the Clyde in Scotland nine months earlier, she was commandeered eight days after commencement of the war, painted battleship grey, armed and commissioned

A hijacked SAA flight - not a commonly known story.

Boer Field Ambulance station sporting the Vierkleur; Observation; would not the ZAR flag be likely to compromise the Red Cross flag and thus attract "accidental" hostile fire?

Group of Boers with their Vierkleur, Captioned Vryheid Commando

A British Soldier with two ZAR Vierkleuren flags captured at the battle of Elandslaagte, 21st October 1899.

16th August 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at

UDF troops Arrive back in Newcastle after the conclusion of the German South West African Campaign in 1915.

Detachment of the Natal Mounted Police hoisting the Union flag in the old Transvaal Republic - its 1877 ... 22 years before 'The Boer War' and long before any 'gold' is discovered in large quantities .. in fact Johannesburg and 'uitlanders' don't even exist at this stage - and

A very busy Cape Town harbour in 1900. The Anglo-Boer War is in full swing as men and supplies are brought ashore and transported to the various battles being fought in Northern Cape.