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“A fenced Cemetery with three graves each with steel crosses. Two soldiers Pte’s Dowsett and Andrews of the 5th Lancers who died during the siege and another of a Mr. TW Corfield curator of Military graves died 1910.
No 24 B F HOSPITAL was considered to be in the vicinity of this position and the graves are thought to be of soldiers who died here of wounds sustained in the Battle of Wagon Hill on the Platrand.”
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Acclaimed as one of the best Anglo Boer War museums in South Africa, its displays on the famous Siege and Relief of Ladysmith have thrilled countless Boer War enthusiasts. Built in 1884 as a market house, it served as a…
33L | RIETFONTEIN MONDAY 23RD OCTOBER 1899 Gen White aware that Gen. Yule and his army were in full retreat from Dundee and aware that elements of the Boer Army were moving to cut him off from the north west,…
“The Platrand is a long hill on the south side of the town. It was a critical section in the town’s defences. The soldiers christened the east end Caesar’s Camp and the West end Wagon Hill after features at Aldershot….
09L | “Intombi Cemetery was the last resting place of around 700 British Soldiers. Sewn in blankets these men were buried at the rate of 28 a day during the last month of the siege. (February 1900). Look for the…
22L | Johannes Hendrick De Lange was a well-known figure in Natal, having been an early Voortrekker scout into Natal and a member of the commando which defeated the Zulu’s at the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838….
