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Fighting Springboks : C Company, Royal Natal carbineers : from Premier Mine to Po Valley, 1939 - 1945

Bentz, Gustav (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Germany’s declaration of war on Poland on 1 September 1939 and the consequent war in Europe not only found the Union of South Africa politically divided but militarily unprepared to fight a modern war let ...
Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin (1860-1925) : the making of a South African hero

Nortier, Erasmus Wentzel (2005-12)

Henry Timson Lukin was born and educated in Britain. After completion of his schooling at the Merchant Taylor’s School in 1875 he had hoped to enter the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, but failed the entry examinations. ...
The role and application of the Union Defence Force in the suppression of internal unrest, 1912-1945

Fokkens, Andries Marius (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use of military force to suppress internal unrest has been an integral part of South African history. The European colonisation of South Africa from 1652 was facilitated by the use of force. Boer ...
Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk : two South African military disasters revisited 1941-1942

Katz, David Brock (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are the largest disasters suffered by South Africa in its military history. Yet, despite their enormity, Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are little understood and hardly remembered. South ...