Category: WW1

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South Africa’s WW1 Victoria Cross Winner

Honouring South African heroes and this is one of South Africa’s greatest. Many people don’t know that South Africa has it’s own WW1 flying ace and VC winner, and this…
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Battle of the Menin Road

By Filip Debergh On 20 September 1917 at 05.40, two regiments, the 3rd and the 4th South African Infantry battalions of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade, left their assembly…
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Schools pay tribute to South African WW1 soldiers at Tyne Cot

  Courtesy of Filip Debergh We previously posted a report on the reburial of three South African soldiers at Tyne Cot, and followed that up with a report on a…
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