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- The Battle of Naauwpoort Nek refers to a clash between the Trekboers and Basotho warriors on 29 September 1865. Naauwpoort lies immediately to the north...8 KB (879 words) - 22:26, 20 June 2023
Clarens, South Africa (section Discovery of fossils)from Hermanus Steyn in 1910, and in 1911 Piet de Villiers sold his farm "Naauwpoort" (situated near the Titanic rock) to a company wanting to establish a...13 KB (1,215 words) - 14:31, 30 May 2024- Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles (category Cavalry regiments of New Zealand)Farrier Sergeant Major William James Hardham won the Victoria Cross at Naauwpoort, in January 1901, where he rescued a wounded comrade while under heavy...20 KB (2,592 words) - 03:21, 18 February 2024
South Australian Mounted Rifles (category Military units and formations of the Second Boer War)line from De Aar to the Modder River. The company returned to Naauwpoort around the end of January, then to Rensburg and lastly Maeder's Farm, where it...16 KB (1,818 words) - 07:28, 30 October 2023
a list of recipients of the Victoria Cross by nationality. It does not include the Victoria Cross awarded to the American Unknown Soldier of World War I...43 KB (1,267 words) - 00:29, 25 June 2024
Company, landed in South Africa on 28 February 1900 and was sent to Naauwpoort as part of a Yeomanry brigade under Major-General John Brabazon. 8th Battalion...54 KB (6,369 words) - 20:44, 7 March 2024- Staffordshire Yeomanry (redirect from Newcastle-under-Lyme Division, Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry)of 4th Battalion, IY, commanded by Col F.G. Blair of the Leicestershire Yeomanry. On 4 March the 4th was sent with other IY battalions to Naauwpoort,...75 KB (8,914 words) - 18:13, 16 July 2024
78 members of the British Armed Forces for action during the Second Boer War. The Victoria Cross is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the...21 KB (883 words) - 12:24, 4 July 2023- 7th Royal Lancashire Militia (Rifles) (category Militia of the United Kingdom)detachments at various places, while battalion headquarters (HQ) went to Naauwpoort. On 28 December the battalion was redeployed, HQ and the main body going...27 KB (3,446 words) - 14:01, 5 December 2023
12th (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (category Military units and formations of the Second Boer War)near Bethulie, and two howitzers of 43rd (H) Bty were with Hickman's newly organised column in reserve near Naauwpoort. This combination again failed to...41 KB (5,618 words) - 19:41, 19 June 2023- attacked and burned a train at the 'Gates of Hell' about 16 miles (26 km) from Naauwpoort: two companies of the battalion only arrived in time to exchange...78 KB (10,417 words) - 14:04, 14 June 2024
Bruce Hamilton (British Army officer) (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)1902. He played a key role in the capture of Naauwpoort. During the latter part of the war he was in command of the military columns operating in Eastern...7 KB (465 words) - 23:06, 1 March 2024
William Hardham (category Second Boer War recipients of the Victoria Cross)awarded to a New Zealander of a unit of the New Zealand Military Forces serving overseas, read: On 28 January 1901, near Naauwpoort, this Non-Commissioned...19 KB (2,270 words) - 22:01, 2 November 2023- to Naauwpoort, but the right half, following on a day behind, was stopped at Hanover Road on 17 February to meet an expected Boer attack. The rest of the...33 KB (4,264 words) - 07:38, 22 April 2024
- 1st Royal Surrey Militia (category Militia of the United Kingdom)at Kalkfontein on 28 November. On 29 December the battalion moved via Naauwpoort to De Aar and took over the blockhouse line from Victoria West to Beaufort...49 KB (6,010 words) - 14:05, 14 June 2024
Autshumato Anti-Aircraft Regiment (category Artillery regiments of South Africa)actions that elements of the CHA were involved in during the war were: Brugspruit (October 1900), Wonderfontein (February 1901), Naauwpoort (February 1901)...16 KB (1,707 words) - 16:59, 21 May 2023
Henry Settle (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)to take command on the line of communications between De Aar and Naauwpoort. At the end of December, Settle, in command of four columns, pursued Hertzog...8 KB (899 words) - 21:52, 9 December 2023
Eustace St Clair Hill (category Recipients of the Military Cross)looting or maltreatment of the Boers. In April 1901, Eustace Hill was appointed Assistant Chaplain to the Railway Mission at Naauwpoort in the Eastern Cape...9 KB (1,258 words) - 13:28, 13 August 2023
- and the Light Horse cut up at Naauwpoort. After such experiences one would have thought that no column which was not of overmastering strength would have