The South African
Military History Society

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging

INDEX to Unpublished Diaries / letters / photographs /reminiscences

Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Gedenksboek of Deadwook Camp St Helena 1900-1902 by S F van Smaalen

Wireless in the Boer War by Dr B.A.Austin

(Pte. Edgar Etches - 13th Hussars and South African Constabulary)

(Letter from Fred Page after Elands River Siege)

(Syd Critten, Imperial Yeomanry)

(Private Walter Putland)

(Sr K L Nealon, nee Hill)

(Sr Grace MacFarlane Roberts)

(Boer War portion of the diary of Maj Jocelyn Frederick de Fonblanque Shaw, RFA.)

(Alfred Robinson's record of his service as a volunteer with Durham Light Infantry, Kitchener's Fighting Scouts and Corp of Cattle Rangers in the Second Boer War, February 1900 - December 1901)

(Boer War Letters of EMS Crabbe, CB)

First World War Diaries

(52 days at the Western Front) by Dr Lewis S Robertson

(Three Edkins brothers from East London in World War I)

(Fewster in German East Africa - Great War Diary)

(Lister in German East Africa - Great War Diary)

(The S.S. AFRIC's first trip as a troop-ship in WWI)

(The story of Seth Batter Churchill, Royal Marines Artillery )

Second World War Diaries

C G van den Berg Reminiscences of ex-POW No. 2825
There are several beautiful paintings sketches and drawings included in this document

(Reminiscences of RH Halse, WWII POW)

(SS Rooseboom - sunk by Japanese I-159 in 1942 while evacuating people after fall of Singapore)

(Update on the sinking of SS Rooseboom)

(Tomalin RNVR reminiscences includes "Little ships")

Other / General interest Diaries

South Africa's Military Presence in South West Africa 1915-1980 by Wolfgang Reith

(William Wood and Dingaan)

(Elizabeth Russell Cameron)

(van den Bergh papers)

The Rhodesian Corps of Signals - Through To 1980 by Dr B.A.Austin

Basil Schonland - Schonland’s other Legacy by Dr B.A.Austin

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