CAPE TOWN BRANCH

THE NEXT TWO MEETINGS IN 1990 TAKE PLACE AS DETAILED BELOW IN THE DU TOIT ROOM OF THE ATHENAEUM 154 CAMPGROUND ROAD, NEWLANDS,AT 8 P.M.

The Society is pleased and privileged to present a visiting overseas Guest Speaker from Britain, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IAN H.W. BENNETT, whose talk "OX WAGON TRANSPORT IS ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE REPUTATION OF ANY NUMBER OF COMMANDERS!" is based on his book, "EYE-WITNESS IN ZULULAND", the South African Campaign reminiscences of Colonel W.A. Dunne.

These reminiscences, written for the first issues of the Army Service Corps Journal in 1891, were discovered after lying hidden in the ArchiveS of the Royal Corps of Transport for nearly a century, and provide a rare insight into some seldom recorded aspects of the campaigns in South Africa between 1877 and 1881.

A young commissary in his mid-twenties, Dunne was to be unique among Imperial officers in that he was engaged in all the wars fought during the period - the last Kaffir War, the Zulu War, the Sekukuni War and the First Anglo-Boer War. He took part in the celebrated defence of Rorke's Drift, when he was recommended for the Victoria' Cross, and two years later he was at Potchefstroom where 213 British troops held out for 96 days against the Boers in a tiny makeshift fort the size of a tennis court. (ARRANGEMENTS BY COURTESY OF MR. PAUL MILLS OF CLARKE'S BOOKSHOP, 211 LONG STREET, CAPE TOWN).

MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO VISITORS

NOTE: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Scheduled to have been held on Thursday 12th April 1990, this has been postponed to Thursday 10th May.

PAUL LANGE - CHAIRMAN
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VICE-CHAIRMAN: Major Antony Gordon (telephone mmmmmmm after hours)