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"Margaret Smith Dewar - WWI Nurse in South Africa, France, Brighton and Macedonia.” by Kathleen Satchwell
Zoomlecture given from Johannesburg on 21 April 2022 hosted by Johannesburg branch
The talk follows the life of a Scottish born and trained nurse, who moved to South Africa and nursed in Germiston.
On declaration of war she went to England and joined the Scottish Womans Hospital which was running
hospitals in France. Later she returned to England, joined the Queen Alexandra Military Nursing Service
and was posted to Brighton.
During this time some of her patients wrote in an autograph album. The talk includes many of the entries of poems and drawings by
these patient soldiers.
A group of British nurses from Brighton, including Margaret, volunteered to nurse Serbian soldiers in
Salonika with the British Medical Corps. Margaret died shielding her patients from German bombs
that were raining down on the hospital.
Link to video file:Margaret Smith Dewar Pt1
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Link to video file:Margaret Smith Dewar Pt2
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"Biodiversity Management in present and post conflict areas” by Adam
Zoomlecture given from Angola on 11 April 2022 hosted by SAMHSEC
The speaker is a conservationist with extensive experience in post-conflict
re-establishment of game conservation in Southern and Central Africa.
The talk was about the damage caused primarily by the Wars in Angola and the recovery efforts after the peace.
In the war a lot of the wildlife was decimated from a large area in the country and some species even became extinct.
After the peace poaching was destroying the efforts of trying to rebuild the wildlife and besides dealing with poachers with
automatic weapons, landmines and the destruction of infrastructure that had happened during the war and that was not replaced,
he detailed the progress of the communities to return the areas to the wildlife, and rebuild the local communities.
Link to video file:Biodiversity Pt1
File size:59 MBytes (26 minutes)
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Link to video file:Biodiversity Pt2
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"The escape of the German warships Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean in 1914” by Robin Smith
Zoomlecture given from Port Elizabeth on 14 March 2022 hosted by SAMHSEC
Robin Smith told the interesting story of the fate of two German warships, Goeben and Breslau, in the Mediterranean just as war was breaking out
in August 1914. Germany was already at war with Russia and France but not yet with Britain. Italy decided to remain neutral. On the 4th when First
Lord Winston Churchill gave orders to the Royal Navy commander in Malta to find, follow and bring to battle the two German warships who were in the
Mediterranean. They were intending to intercept French ships bringing their Colonial forces from Algeria but were ordered to make for
Constantinople instead. Fortuitously they ran into the two British battle cruisers but neither side could open fire since they were not yet at war. The
Germans were short of coal which the Italians refused to supply. Now at war, a British cruiser force refused to join action and they managed to evade
the British and gain safe harbour in Turkey at Constantinople. Far from just clearing them out of the Mediterranean, the longer term consequence
was the entry of Turkey on the side of Germany and the campaigns in Gallipoli and then Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Link to video file:Goeben Pt1
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Link to video file:Goeben Pt2
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"The Vikings” by Ian Copley
Zoomlecture given from Port Elizabeth on 14 February 2022 hosted by SAMHSEC
The Vikings seaborne raids had an enormous impact on European military history
Link to video file:Vikings Pt1
File size:41 MBytes (35 minutes)
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Link to video file:Vikings Pt2
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"Adolph Galland, German Fighter Ace of the Second World War” by Jan Willem Hoorweg
Zoomlecture given from Johannesburg on 13 January 2022 hosted by Johannesburg branch
Adolf Galland was a German Luftwaffe general and fighter ace who
served throughout WW2 in Europe, flying 705 combat missions in the
defence of the Reich. This talk will deal with his early life, his experiences
during the Spanish Civil War and the first few years of WW2, followed by
his experiences as General of the Fighters
Link to video file:Adolph Gallant Pt1
File size:85 MBytes (35 minutes)
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Link to video file:Adolph Gallant Pt2
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