The South AfricanMilitary History Society
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging
The South African
South African Military History Society
http://samilitaryhistory.org
Ditsong (South African) National Military History Museum
22 Erlswold Way, Saxonwold, Johannesburg, 2132 / P.O. Box 52090, Saxonwold,
2132
Tel. no. 010-001-3515 Fax no. 011-646-5256
E-mail: milmus@ditsong.org.za
Website: http://www.militarymuseum.co.za
Opening hours: 9h00 - 16h30, every day except Christmas
Day and Boxing Day
Admission fees: R25 per adult, R15 per pensioner, R15 per scholar
Meetings of the Military History Society are held at the Museum.
Military History Journal is produced in collaboration
with the S.A. National Museum of Military History.
South African Air Force Museum
South African Maritime Museum
S.A. Naval Museum
Museum of the Boer Republics
Castle Military Museum
*Postal Address
PO Box 1,
Cape Town,
7700 ,
South Africa
Chavonnes Battery Museum
Physical address - V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
http://www.facebook.com/ChavonnesBatteryMuseum
http://www.virtualsouthafrica.com/capetown/tours/chavonnes/index.htm
http://www.waterfront.co.za/Pages/VandAWaterfrontHistoricalWalkingTours.aspx
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g312659-d2486149-Reviews-Chavonnes_Battery_Museum-Cape_Town_Central_Western_Cape.html
For comprehensive information on KwaZulu Natal’s Battlefields Route, visit their official website www.battlefields-route.co.za
Dundee Museum
Ladysmith Siege Museum
Ladysmith Historical Society
Lichtenburg Museum
McGregor Museum
Port Shepstone Maritime Museum
Simon's Town Museum
Street Address:
Telephone: 021-786-3046
Fax: 021-786-2391
Brief history: The Simon's Town Museum was established in 1977 by the Simon's Town Historical Society (Friends of the Simon's Town Museum) to collect and preserve the history of the Simon's Town community, past and present, with emphasis on its immense diversity of origins, cultures and religions and to highlight the significant role played by the Simon's Town community in maritime and global history and their connections to the VOC; Royal Navy and other nations around the world.
Specialisation:
* Cultural diversity and origins of the Simon's Town people
* Devastation of our community through the Group Areas Act
* Cur links to international history and the slave trade
Some of our Exhibitions:
The People of Simon's Town
The Anglo-Boer Prisoner-of-War Camp
Simon's Town's Participation in the World Wars
The Royal Navy in Simon's Town
The Just Nuisance Story
The Slave Cells
E-mail: godfreyg@iafrica.com
Website: http://www.rfc.za.org
E-mail: archives@dac.gov.za
Cape Town Archives Repository (Western Cape Provincial Archives) [KAB]
E-mail: records@pgwc.gov.za
Free State Provincial Archives [VAB]
E-mail: fsarch@sacr.fs.gov.za
National Archives Repository (Public Records of Central Government since 1910) [SAB]
plus the Transvaal Provincial Archives Repository [TAB]
E-mail: enquiries@dac.gov.za
KwaZulu-Natal Archives [TBD]
Durban Archives Repository
E-mail: dbnarchives@dact.kzntl.gov.za
KwaZulu-Natal Archives [NAB]
Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository
E-mail: dbnarchives@dact.kzntl.gov.za
Port Elizabeth Archives Repository [TBE]
E-mail: dbnarchives@dact.kzntl.gov.za
National Film Video and Sound Archives [NFA]
E-mail: film.enquities@dac.gov.za
South African War Graves (SA Heritage Resources Agency)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (South Africa)
MIBISA (Military Burials In South Africa) Archive Project
Hundreds of photographs have already been forwarded to SAHRA, SANDF and various Museums and Societies world wide.
The first 300 page Volume of a reference work for the Western Cape has been compiled and is soon to be published. Both the Eastern and Northern Cape volumes are in progress.
Project Director: Colyn Brookes, Tel/Fax 021-930-2752
E-mail: cedwardb@mweb.co.za
Website: http://mibisa.fotopic.net/
Website: http://sapanorama.fotopic.net/
South African War Graves Project
South African National Coordinator: Ricky Nortje, P.O Box 1482, New Germany, 3620 K.Z.N
E-mail: ricky@eject.co.za
Website: http://www.southafricawargraves.org
The Boksburg Historical Association
SA Legion
War Games association
URL: http://www.mindsportssa.freeservers.com/
South African Arms & Ammunition Collectors Association
Genealogical Society of South Africa
SA War Graves Records in Britain
The National Archives incorporating British Public Records Office
e-mail: enquiry@nationalarchives.gov.uk
Website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Queen's Dragoon Guards Museum
1st King's Dragoon Guards and the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
Contact: Clive Jack Morris curator QDG Museum
e-mail: curator@qdg.org.uk
web site www.qdg.org.uk
http://www.qdg.org.uk/maintext/southafrica1899_1902.htm
International Military Music Society
E. mail: gordon@droitmusic.freeserve.co.uk
South African Branch
Captain P. Digby MMM JCD
29 Oaklands Road
Johannesburg 2129
Tel: (+27)011-728-6446
Other branch websites: Canada - http://www.total.net/lanced/immscb.html
Denmark -http//worldonline.dk/-imms
Netherlands - http:/www.imms.nl
Netherlands - http//www.militairemuziek.nl
France - http//perso.worldonline.fr/immsfr
Victorian Military Society
We have relaunched "Soldiers of the Queen" with a new modern look which we are very proud of. This, together with our new status as an educational charity means exciting times ahead.
Zimbabwe Medal Society
Secretary ; Ian Barham,
60B Speke Av,
Harare,
Zimbabwe
Tel 738734
Archivist :
Keith Holshausen,
P.O. Box AY 30,
Amby,
Harare,
Zimbabwe.
Tel 488620
Medals of the Anglo Boer War 1899 - 1902
The site is free to access and has the aim of providing information on the men, their units, battles and the medals of the Boer War. The site is just over a year old and has grown to over 2000 pages. Highlights include: