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A collection of military history and battlefields by Midge Carter and Trish Woodman

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South Africa

Full-sized bronze wagons Boer War

Blood River

Natal, South Africa, 1899. An armoured train, used by the British, that was wrecked on 15 November 1899 by the Boers near Frere camp Source: Australian War Memorial

Frere

SAMHS members taking a breather in Hlobane, 1971

Hlobane

SB, Bob, Tania, Heather, Ken and Darrell, Holkrans Memorial, 1972

Holkrans (Holkrantz)

Kambula

Kambula

The Burgher monument at Koster River

Koster River

Magersfontein Scandiavian Corps

Magersfontein

Route taken by the British in 1881 and the Centenary group in 1981. nKwelo, right, from the summit of Majuba.

Majuba “The Hill of Doves”

Tania and Ken at Luneburg Cemetery, Zulu War (1879)

Ntombe or Intombe Drift and Luneburg

Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town

Rhodes, Matapos Hills, Jameson Raid

Spionkop 1965

Spionkop (now Spioenkop)

We went into Stanger to see Shaka’s monument and found that all the local Zulus were pouring in all dressed in ceremonial gear

Stanger

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