A Most Desperate Fight

The Boer War action on the Mahlabatini Plain, Zululand 28th April 1901

Sep 12, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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August 2025

For this act of gallantry

Hubert Le Mesurier MSM, Boer War, Bambatha Rebellion and Great War veteran.

Aug 24, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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July 2025

Fresh Out of Southern Africa!

Zulu War veterans who served with the New South Wales Contingent to the Sudan in 1885

Jul 19, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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June 2025

General Digby Willoughby, a Victorian soldier of fortune

The founder of Willoughby’s Horse – a BaSotho Gun War Regiment

Jun 30, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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Trooper ‘Tottie’ Hay, the betrayer of the Mafeking garrison

The story of Edward James Hay, Royal Navy, Jameson Raider, policeman and deserter.

Jun 18, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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Colonial Warriors - The O’Toole brothers in Southern Africa

Captains Edmund O’Toole VC and Frank O’Toole

Jun 12, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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May 2025

More about ‘Normandy Commando to Vietnam War Company Commander’

The story of Major Philip Henry Biggerton Pritchard OAM, RVM

May 31, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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Frontier Warrior – South Africa’s first Major General

The life of Major General Sir Edward Y. Brabant KCB CMG

May 24, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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A Desperate and Prolonged Fight

The Battle of Ibeka, 29-30th September 1877

May 4, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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April 2025

Here they are, boys, come on!

The deaths of Captain J.G. Donovan and Lieutenant G.W. Ward in the Perie Bush 21st March 1878

Apr 24, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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A family in the Colonial Service

Captain Thomas Hamilton and his two sons in Zululand 1879

Apr 18, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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March 2025

A sobering letter from Zululand

Lieutenant Arnold F.H. Wainewright’s account of the battle of iSandlwana on 22nd January 1879

Mar 23, 2025 • Cam Simpson

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