The South African
Front Cover illustration
Cover Illustration::
Orange Free State Krupp L/27 number 4 firing in New Zealand in 2010.
The gun was one of the Krupps in action at Graspan.
It was restored by Geoff Lawson and the Wanganui Regional Museum.
Inside front cover illustrations:
FORT COLVILLE - GRAFFITI
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XIII SOMERSET E COY
chiselled onto the
north west wall of the
South Blockhouse.
Graffito:
The letters PA above
SLI 01 (Prince Albert’s Own
Somersetshire Light Infantry, 1901)
are scratched deeply on the outside
of the east wall of the West blockhouse.
Inside back cover:
There were various celebrations across the country
to mark 100 years since the founding of the SA Navy
on 1 April 1922
L to R: R Adm (JG) Rudman, Capt (SAN) Gower,
R Adm (JG) Söderlund, Capt (SANR) Napier and
Chaplain (SAN) Thornley at Seven Seas
Mike Bosazza (Chairman Naval Heritage Trust)
at the wreath laying, Simon’s Town
Gathering of the Naval Officers Association
of Southern Africa Pretoria ‘Olds and Bolds’
SA Navy 100 Celebration on 1 April 2022 at the Italian Club
Seated fltr: Derek Christian, Nick Snyman, John Orrock,
Corrie Van Rooyen, Alan Claydon-Fink and Martyn Trainor (guest)
Standing from left to right: Theo Butler, Johan Potgieter,
Peter Eldon, Ian Wessels, Jock Deacon, Trevor Beddy,
Evert Groenewald, Richard Stephen, Charles Ross, Jacques Breedt,
Clyde Stirling, Dunstan Smart, Ivor Little and Rusty Higgs.
Gathering at the Umbabat Nature Reserve:
Back Row: Lt. Dr Piet van Schaik (Wellington),
Jean-Pierre Visée (ex-Sea Cadet – Perth, Australia)
Cdr. Gerrie van der Westhuizen (Hermanus)
(All SAS MAGALIESBERG)
Front Row: Janet Visée (Committee member
Northern Navy Wives Association 1983)
RAdm (JG) Ivan Visée, Sandra van Schaik nee Fischer
(SWAN SAS MAGALIESBERG)
Back cover illustrations:
FORT COLVILLE - continued
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The Southernmost of the trio of blockhouses,
Fort Colville, near Heidelberg in 2021.
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