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Three Ships Service 2015

  Some more great work from the South African Legion – Port Elizabeth branch – annual Three Ships Service in PE, in recognition of the three ships lost in February…
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Centenary Commemoration of World War One

  ST MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, EAST LONDON Article by Charles Ross   On Sunday 28 September 2014 the Parish of St Mary’s Anglican Church, Cambridge, East London held a…
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The tragedy of the SS Mendi – South Africa’s greatest wartime loss

Collated by Peter Dickens     On 21 February 1917, during World War I, this chartered troopship – the SS Mendi – containing a full battalion of South African Native…
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