The South African
Front Cover illustration
Cover Illustration::
"E" Troop Rhodesian Regiment before Major-General Baden-Powell,
17 May 1900 on the Relief of Mafeking, by G. Lindemere, 1901.
National Archives of Zimbabwe.
Inside front cover illustrations:
Eastern Cape Field Trip: The Eastern Cape Branch (SAMHSEC) undertakes annual field trips.
The field trip in August 2019 spent two nights in Hogsback and visited sites of interest from the 7th and 8th Frontier Wars.
John Martin and Peter Duffel-Canham at the site of
Fort Hare on the campus of the University of Fort Hare.
The field trip visited the monument at St Mungo’s Church
to the victims of the Christmas Day 1850 attacks
on the villages of Woburn Aukland and Juanasberg
Photographs by courtesy of Peter Duffel-Canham
Inside back cover:
Bicentenary of Napoleon's Death
Napoleon on his Imperial throne
Painting by Ingres, 1806
Napoleon's Tomb in Les Invalides, Paris.
Image by Livioandronico2013
Both photographs accessed via Wikipedia.
Back cover:
The Queen's Scarf
Queen Victoria personally crocheted eight scarves during the Second Anglo-Boer War (aka South African War) to be awarded as tokens of her appreciation for her soldiers. These khaki-coloured woollen scarves were five foot (1.6m) long, and were worn as sashes as shown in the bottom photo from a museum in New Zealand
The royal cipher VRI for
'Victoria Regina et Imperatrix'
was sewn onto each scarf
Four were given to British NCOs fighting under Gen Hildyard near Spionkop, one to Colour Sergeant Frank Kingsley, DCM, 2nd Bn The West Yorkshire Regiment as mentioned in the article on Bastion Hill by Dr G Winton. In each Regiment, NCOs and men voted for their bravest representative who then received the scarf.
Scarf displayeed on flag
The other four were to Colonial troops - one each was given to
an Australian Trooper, a Canadian Private and a New Zealand trooper
with the last to a South African Trooper in Robert's Horse.
All photographs accessed via the Internet.
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