The South African
Military History Society

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging

SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY EASTERN CAPE BRANCH
SUID-AFRIKAANSE KRYGSHISTORIESE VERENIGING OOS-KAAP TAK

Meetings are held on the 2nd MONDAY evening of each month at 7-30pm (unless the 2nd Monday is on a public holiday).

For details of the venue, contact: Malcolm Kinghorn (041-373-4469)

A small fee is charged for non-members.

2008 SPEAKERS' ROSTER AS MODIFIED ON 25 JUNE 08
Date		Lecturer	Title
10 Jan	CR	Peter Duffel-Canham	The Helen Duncan story
	MAIN	McGill Alexander	South African Paratroopers in World War 2
14 Feb	CR	The Arthur Cup (title TBC)	Ian Pringle
	MAIN	Anne Irwin	The power of war poetry
13 Mar	CR		AGM
	MAIN	Ria Meyer	Diary of a 2007 D-Day to Berlin Tour
10 Apr	CR	Ken Stewart	The tank that stormed Saigon
	MAIN	Alan Bamford	The First Four Frontier Wars (date TBC)
8 May	CR	Zane Palmer	either "Making of model cannons" or "Restoration of 7 pdr RMLs"
	MAIN	Malcolm Kinghorn	Chris McCanlis, BCR Memorial Lecture: The Indian invasion of Goa
14 Jun (Grahamstown)	CR	Mary Knowling	Service in the SA coastal artillery in WW II.
	MAIN	John Jackson	Greeks (or Romans) at War
14 July (remember we meet on the second Monday of the month):	CR	Alan Bamford	The War Records of Bishops
	MAIN	Malcolm Kinghorn	Long Range Penetration Operations in Burma in 1943 & 1944
11 August	CR	Tim Jones	The RAF's most decorated squadron
	MAIN	Peter Gordon	Xhosa Warfare by
11 Sep	CR	Piet Hall	Revolutionary Warfare
	MAIN	Jock Harris	5 SA Infantry Battalion
9 Oct	CR
	MAIN	Pat Irwin	The Battle of Hastings
13 Nov	CR	Richard Tomlinson	A British Army National Serviceman in the 1950s
	MAIN	Peter Gordon	Xhosa Warfare
12 Dec	CR
	MAIN	Ted Botha	TBC

Lecture programme 2007
Date		Lecturer	Title
12 April	CR	Tim Jones	Northern Rhodesia Police
	MAIN	Barry de Klerk	Very unfriendly (fire)
10 May	CR	Rob Melville	Campaign Furniture
	MAIN	Chris McCanlis, BCR	The Nuremberg Trials
7 June	CR	Bill Mills	Men of Iron
	MAIN	Jock Harris	SANDF Integration
12 July	CR	Barry Irwin	HMS Seraph
	MAIN	Pat Irwin	The Battle of Waterloo
9 August		Paul Galpin	Film night

13 September		John Stevens	Leadership debate

13 October Note: Saturday in Grahamstown	CR	TBC	First City Regiment
	MAIN	Alan Bamford	Some ideas on the causes and course of the 1st Anglo-Boer War 1880/81
8 November	CR	Richard Tomlinson	the Terrible Twins: The Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers
	MAIN	Geoff Hamp-Adams	Pearl Harbour
13 December	CR	Robin Barkes	Black Powder
	MAIN	Pat Irwin and Malcolm Kinghorn	Ships and shipping: 1. Konigsberg 2. The Halifax Explosion

Lecture programme 2006
Date		Lecturer	Title
12 January	CR	Barry De Klerk	Warfare by Numbers
	MAIN	Colonel (Rtd) Gerhard Du Plessis	Die Suid-Afrikaanse Leërgevegskool
9 February	CR	Jorrie Jordaan	Die Stigting van die Militêre Gimnasium 1950
	MAIN	John Parkinson	HMS Dorsetshire: Flagship Africa Station 1933-1935 and in the Cape during WWII
9 March	AGM
	MAIN	Dr Taffy Shearing	The Cape Rebel in the Anglo-Boer War
20 April Note 3rd Thursday and at PE SAAF Museum	CR	Geoff Hamp-Adams	The Zero Fighter unmasked
	MAIN	John Stevens	The Boy Colonel of the Confederacy
11 May	CR	Peter Duffel-Canham	Seaman Gunner, do not weep A sailor on SA minesweepers in the Med in WWII
	MAIN	Chris McCanlis, BCR	The Shangani Patrol, 1893
10 June Note Saturday in Grahamstown	CR	Yoland Irwin	The history of medicine in warfare
	MAIN	Alan Bamford	Some views on the causes of the 2nd Anglo-Boer War
13 July	CR	Robin Barkes	The mining of a Union Ironclad by Confederate forces
	MAIN	Caroline Rodgers	RAF Brothers
10 August	CR	Prof Pat Irwin	Elephants in War
	MAIN	Dave Whitehouse	Wargaming - a way to re-fight the past
14 September	CR	Ken Stewart	The Cuchi Tunnels
	MAIN	Barry de Klerk	Battleships
12 October	CR	Bill Mills	The Italian POW Chapel at Scapa Flow
	MAIN	Elizabeth Nel	On Churchill's staff
9 November	CR	Brian Klopper	EOKA
	MAIN	Ian Uys	Delville Wood
14 December	CR	Mike Duncan	SANLC WWI Medals
	MAIN	Barry Irwin	Operation Mincemeat (The Man who never was)

Lecture programme 2005
Date		Lecturer	Title
10 March	CR	Prof Pat Irwin	The North African Campaign
	MAIN	Jimmy Mullins	Gazala Gallop to El Alamein
14 April	CR	Clayton Holliday	SA War Musuem's ME 262 (TBC)
	MAIN	Geoff Hamp-Adams	Japanese Undersea Aircraft Carriers
12 May	CR	Ken Munro	Capt Agnes Martin, OBE, of Bletchley Park
	MAIN	Malcolm Kinghorn	"Operation Savannah: South African participation in the Angolan Civil War 1975-76"
09 Jun	CR	Des Kopke	Stutterheim Concentration Camp
	MAIN	Chris McCanlis, BCR	Signal Catastrophe: the Retreat from Kabul in 1842
14 Jul	CR	Deryck Langman	VC recipients buried in the metropolitan area
	MAIN	Dr Taffy Shearing	The Cape Rebel of the SA War
11 Aug	CR	John Scott	North-West Frontier revisited
	MAIN	Brig Gen (Ret'd) Ken Harris	Reminiscences of a career in SA Infantry 1964-2000
8 Sep	CR	Dave Whitehouse	The current state of anti-tank warfare
	MAIN	Edwin Pons	My experiences as a Chaplain with SA troops in WW2
13 Oct	CR	Ian Pringle	In search of Smuts' Commando member Piet De Reyt. Piet was an Adelaide district rebel who was executed by the Brits after being captured wearing Brit uniform while with Smuts' commando in the Adelaide district. Ian was involved in locating Piet's grave on a Pringle family farm.
	MAIN	Prof Pat Irwin	Battle of Trafalgar
10 Nov	CR	Des Kopke	The battle of Amalinde
	MAIN	Jan Sieben	Video on the "Swordfish" aircraft of WW2
8 Dec	CR	Alan Bamford	Some views on the causes of the Anglo-Boer War
	MAIN	Barry Irwin	Operation Mincemeat ("The man who never was")