The South African
Front Cover illustration
HMSAS Immortelle and HMSAS Sonneblom
Cover Illustration SAS Immortelle and SAS Sonneblom which had been donated by the Royal Navy as HMS Eden and HMS Foyle.
Painting by Ron Belling, commissioned by the South African Navy
as part of their 75th Anniversary celebrations.
Photograph courtesy of South African Naval Museum
Inside front cover illustrations:
The SAS Protea
badge crest
SAS Drakensberg shows
the Country’s new flag
The torpedo recovery and diver support ship SAS Fleur
The harbour tug SAS Inyathi
Inside back cover:
Colour photograph of the medals awarded to John Clisdal, one of first ten SA candidate aviators (See story)
M.C.(GV) unnamed,
QSA CC/SA1902 38407 Pte. Imp. Yeo.,
Natal clasp 1906 Pte. Cape Mtd. Riflemen,
1914-15 Star Sjt. S.A.M.R.F.A.B.,
BWM & unilingual Victory Medal (MID)
Capt. R.A.F., R.A.F. wings as a sweetheart pin brooch in 9ct gold. (7)
Stories and photographs from Brian Thomas
General Kenneth van der Spuy
General Kenneth van der Spuy at
the controls of a restored Paterson biplane.
He was another of the first ten candidate aviators in 1913, and the last to pass away, at 99 years of age in 1991.
The Memorial near Kimberley to
the Aviation Pioneers.
It was paid for by public subscription.
It includes a memorial tablet to
General Kenneth van der Spuy C.B.E. M.C.
on which is written:
He truly warmed both hands before the
fire of life.
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