The South AfricanMilitary History Society
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging
The South African
Meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday evening of each month at 8-00 pm (unless the 2nd Thursday is on a public holiday).
Meetings are held at:
South African National Museum of Military History
Erlswold Ave
Saxonwold
Johannesburg
Contact: Joan Marsh 010-237-0676
Lecture Convenor - Lyn Mantle 011-784-6232
A small fee (R10) is charged for non-members.
Tea (R5) is available after the meetings.
| Lecture programme 2010 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Lecturer | Title | |
| 21st January | CR | Terry Willson | The Boer, his Mauser & First World War |
| THIRD THURSDAY! | ML | Alan Mantle | The War Machines of Leonardo da Vinci |
| 11th February | CR | Jan Willem Hoorweg | Battle of Suomusalmi (Finland vs Russia) |
| ML | Raymond Heron | Spionkop - The untold Story | |
| 11th March | CR | CR: Bob Smith | The Perils of Pearl Harbour |
| ML | Robin Smith | Pickett's Charge | |
| 9th April | Annual General Meeting | ||
| ML | Philip Weyers | General Smuts & the Formation of the Royal and SA Air Forces | |
| 13 May | CR | Emilio Coccia | Italian POW's in South Africa (1945-47) |
| ML | Colin Dean | Woks, Lops and Mops from a Master Codemaker | |
| 10 June | CR | David Scholtz | The Edwin Swales Memorial |
| ML | John Murray | Some Irish VC's of the Anglo-Boer War | |
| 08 July | CR | Marjorie Dean | From the Veld to the Pole & back again (Oates) |
| ML | Hamish Paterson | Battle of Pharsalus ( Caesar vs Pompey 48BC) | |
| Lecture programme 2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Lecturer | Title | |
| 15th January | CR | Debbie Schlosser | A tribute to Col. Frans Nel |
| THIRD THURSDAY! | ML | Sarel Rousseau | Further Adventures of Radio Hams in WWII |
| 12th February | CR | David Scholtz | Royal Sussex Memorial at Abraham's Kraal |
| ML | Morris Skikne | Tank Battalions in the 4 Israeli Wars | |
| 12th March | CR | Ivor Little | Project Dobbin |
| ML | Robin Smith | Stonewall Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign in Spring 1862 | |
| 9th April | Annual General Meeting | ||
| ML | Colin Dean | Nazis on Ice - Busting of a myth | |
| 14th May | CR | Hamish Paterson | The Road to Amalindi |
| ML | John Bleloch | Jameson & the Raid | |
| 11th June | CR | Nick Cowley | The Admirals of Rosebank |
| ML | Jack Mink | Music of WW2 | |
| 9th July | CR | Dean McElwee | My father's Cap Badge collection ( 1890's to present ) |
| ML | Charles Leach | Ltn. 'Breaker' Morant & the Bushveldt Carbineers | |
| 13th August | CR | Marjorie Dean | America's Nightingales - Heroines of the American Civil War |
| ML | Prof. Tim Stapleton | Black Police and Soldiers in Southern Rhodesia, 1923-65. | |
| 10th September | CR | Ann Bourdin | Thermopylae and Salamis |
| ML | Kathleen Satchwell | From the Frontier to the Trenches. | |
| 8th October | CR | Marius Whittle | Operation Leopard - French Foreign Legion Zaire 1978 |
| ML | Paul Kilmartin | 1914 The Road to War & the Opening months | |
| 12th November | CR | Tim Waudby | Ghurka! |
| ML | Steve Lunderstedt | The Boer Rebellion | |
| 10th December | CR | Ian Thurston | Escape from France 1940 |
| ML | John Parkinson | HIJMS 'Wakamiya': Early Japanese Naval Air Power | |
| Lecture programme 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Lecturer | Title | |
| 17th January | CR | Sarel Rousseau | Radio Hams at War |
| THIRD THURSDAY! | ML | Flip Hoorweg | Hitler's Greatest Defeat:
Operation Bagration, '44 - the Red Army's conquest of Belorussia. |
| 14th February | CR | Allan Sinclair | The Battle of Sidi Rezegh; A study of a painting by Ralph Hill |
| ML | Tim Waudby | Kipling Revived: the North Western Frontier | |
| 13th March | CR | Donald Brown | 'My' R.A.F. |
| ML | Robin Smith | Shiloh - The emergence of Grant | |
| 10th April | Annual General Meeting | ||
| ML | Marjorie Dean | Walking the scene - Battlefield Tours | |
| 8th May | CR | Nick Cowley | Three Braggart Soldiers of the 19th Century |
| ML | Dr. Org de Bruyn | The story that coins tell | |
| 12th June | CR | Hamish Paterson | Ill-met: U boat vs aircraft |
| ML | Alan Mantle | Suez 1956 - The invasion & the aftermath | |
| 10th July | CR | John Cramp | Rorke's Drift - what became of the heroes ? |
| ML | Marius Whittle | Airborne & Airmobile Warfare in Southern Africa. | |
| 14th August | CR | Felicia Fourie | The Women of the Anglo Boer War |
| ML | Ken Gillings | Aftermath of A.B.W. | |
| 11th September | CR | Robin Gardiner | Special Operations Executives in Burma |
| ML | John Parkinson | HMS Durban ; WW2 - The East & D-Day | |
| 9th October | CR | Anne Bourdin | Marathon - a Mythic Battle 490 B.C. |
| ML | John Murray | The Royal Marines | |
| 13th November | CR | Flip Hoorweg | Germany's own Dunkirk |
| ML | Steve Lunderstedt | Koos de la Rey | |
| 11th December | CR | Terry Willson | The History of a Rifle discovered in Zululand |
| ML | David Williams | "On the Border" his new book | |
| Lecture programme 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Lecturer | Title | |
| 18th January | CR | Flip Hoorweg | Julius Caesar and the Battle of Alesia 52 BCE |
| THIRD THURSDAY! | ML | Frank Diffenthal | We were Volunteers - Angola 1975 |
| 8th February | CR | Nick Cowley | The Great Escape - South Africans involved |
| ML | Hamilton Wende | The King's Shilling - 1916 - East Africa | |
| 8th March | CR | David Williams | Seven Famous Battles that shaped South Africa |
| ML | Robin Smith | 9 Days in April - Grant's pursuit of Lee, April 1865 | |
| 12th April | Annual General Meeting | ||
| ML | Martin Ayres | The Planning of D-Day, 1944 | |
| 10th May | CR | Donald Brown | A Child at War |
| ML | Clive Willsworth | The S.A. Artillery in action 1975 - 1988 | |
| 14th June | CR | Klaus Kühne | Britische Freikorps - South Africans involved |
| ML | Tim Waudby | The way back - Burma 1943-45 | |
| 12th July | CR | Marjorie Dean | Sunset in the West - Hood's Tennessee Campaign |
| ML | Carvel Webb | The History of SIG Firearms | |
| 16th August THIRD THURSDAY! |
CR | Ivor Little | San Boats (Eagle Oil) at War A brief look at the bravery displayed by the tanker crews of the Eagle Oil & Shipping Company during the ocean convoys of World War II. |
| ML | Colin Dean | The Spice Trade Wars An overview of 400 years of struggle by five different countries to gain control of the lucrative Far Eastern Spice Trade. |
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| 13th September | CR | John Cramp | Soldier-Prince, Edward of Kent, Queen Victoria's father A brief biography of a Victorian soldier. |
| ML | Hamish Paterson | Cleopatra vs Augustus The Battle of Actium 33BC. |
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| 11th October | CR | Martin Ayres | 1066, the year that changed England forever |
| ML | John Parkinson | Japan: 1863-64 British Naval Bombardment of Kagoshima | |
| 8th November | CR | Roslyn Peter | The Graf Spee |
| ML | Steve Lunderstedt | Freddie Tait - The Golfing Hero | |
| 13th December | CR | John Murray | Death of a Hero - Nairac, G.C. |
| ML | Col. Jas Jacobs | The Basotho Wars 1820-1869 | |
| LECTURE PROGRAMME - 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Lecturer | Title | |
| 19th January | CR | Flip Hoorweg | Defeat into Victory: Mons 1914 vs Mons 1918 |
| THIRD THURSDAY! | ML | David Williams | Monte Cassino |
| 9th February | CR | Avram Pelunsky | Three Battles of Gaza, 1917 |
| ML | Mario Lupini | The Italian Involvement in the Anglo-Boer War | |
| 9th March | CR | Terry Leaver | Britain, the Middle East and T E Lawrence |
| ML | Robin Smith | Antietam - the American Civil War's Bloodiest Day | |
| 13 April | Annual General Meeting | ||
| ML | Carvel Webb | Radio and its Transformation of Modern Warfare | |
| 11 May | CR | Bob Smith | Bridge on the River Kwai |
| ML | SAAACA | Panel Debate on the merits of various weapons | |
| 8 June | CR | Colin Dean | WW2 POW Camps in the UK |
| ML | Dick Bullen | Burma - the Longest Retreat | |
| 13 July | CR | Flip Hoorweg | The Caves of Umurbrogol Ridge 1944 |
| ML | Martin Ayres | Hundred Years War - Joan of Arc and Henry V | |
| 10 August | CR | Ivor Little | Wooden Walls to Dreadnoughts - Gun, Ram, Armour or Torpedo? |
| ML | MC Heunis | OVSAC - Oranje Vrijstaat Artillerie Corps - Boer War Artillery Trophy Guns | |
| 14 September | CR | John Parkinson | Some Arctic Activities: Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kellett. |
| ML | Paul Kilmartin | SA's last VC, Edwin Swales | |
| 12 October | CR | Huffy Pott | The Battle of Berg-en-Dal |
| ML | John Murray | The French Foreign Legion | |
| 9 November | CR | John Cramp | The evolution of the Victoria Cross |
| ML | John Parkinson | Early Steam-Navigation of the Yangtse Gorges | |
| 14 December | CR | Terry Willson | The Natal Volunteers, 1854 to 1912 |
| ML | Andre Sharashkin | The Russian Front of the Second World War | |
| Lecture programme 2005 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 20th January | CR | Gerald Zwirn | Voices from the Past |
| THIRD THURSDAY! | ML | Flip Hoorweg | The Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive: 1918 |
| 10th February | CR | Angela Embleton | "We learnt to fly by the seat of our pants" - diary of a SA Pilot in WWI |
| . | ML | Robin Smith | The Struggle for Chattanooga |
| 10th March | CR | Susanne Blendulf | Women's Territorial Service, East Africa 1939-45 |
| . | ML | Stuart Sterzel | The Battle of Cuito Cuanevale, Angola, 1987 |
| 14th April | . | Annual General Meeting | . |
| . | ML | Frank Bullen | No Scarlet, No Bearskin |
| 12th May | CR | Terry Leaver | V E Day |
| . | ML | SAAACA group | Cut and Thrust: A Century of British Swords |
| 9th June | CR | Bruce Wentzel | Royal Marines 1812 - in the Movies |
| . | ML | Ivor Little | "A Name Amongst Seafaring Men" - The Proud Military Legacy Of The Training Ship "General Botha" |
| 14th July | CR | Robert Morgan-Wilson | Toxopholy - a new string to your bow |
| . | ML | John Murray | Sinking of the Lusitania |
| 11th August | CR | Theo Truter | The battle for Keren, Eritrea, Feb 1941 |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | Japan's longest day - the decision to surrender |
| 8th September | CR | Col C J Jacobs | The Lucy Ring - (Soviet name for German Spy Rudolf Roessler) |
| . | ML | John Parkinson | '1858: British Treaties with China and Japan, H.M.S. 'FURIOUS' at Shanghai, The Peiho, and Yeddo' |
| 13th October | CR | Marjorie Dean | Trafalgar - the Making of a Hero |
| . | ML | Terry Willson | The Order Book of Major Tottenham, 12th Lancers |
| 10th November | CR | Martin Ayres | Admiral Nagumo and his Fateful Decisions: Pearl Harbour to Midway |
| . | ML | Gerald Zwirn | The last days of Mussolini |
| 8th December | CR | Felicia Fourie | The Peace Negotiations - Anglo-Boer War |
| . | ML | Colin Dean | Flying Bombs |
| Lecture programme 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 9th December | CR | Geoff Hardy | Excerpts of the Boer War Diary of Private J L Hardy with the Royal West Kents |
| . | ML | Terry Willson | The British Sniper |
| 11th November | CR | Bob Smith | Ladysmith - Battle of Wagon Hill - January 1900 |
| . | ML | Colin Dean | Chinese Colonial Expansion in the 15th Century |
| 14th October | CR | Marjorie Dean | Major-General Robert "Roy" Urquhart (of Arnhem), 1943 |
| . | ML | Ken Gillings | What Really Happened at Vlakfontein - May 1901? |
| 9th September | CR | Louis Wildenboer | Anzio Annie - the Story of a Gun |
| . | ML | Paul Kilmartin | Why the Poppy? Why Remember? |
| 12th August | CR | Flip Hoorweg | Nathan Bedford Forrest - Forerunner of Christiaan de Wet? |
| . | ML | John Parkinson | Vice Admiral Nagumo in the Indian Ocean - April 1942 |
| 8th July | CR | Alan Young | Special Forces League |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | Death of a Kingmaker |
| 10th June | CR | Terry Leaver | D-Day |
| . | ML | Col. C.J. Jacobs | Guerilla Phase of the Anglo-Boer War in the NE Transvaal |
| 13th May | CR | Deon Fourie | Smuts the Soldier |
| . | ML | SAAACA Group | British Smallarms in the 20th Century |
| 8th April | . | . | Annual General Meeting |
| . | ML | Marius Whittle | The Terrible Twins - J.F.C. Fuller and B H Liddell-Hart |
| 11th Mar | CR | John Murray | Field Marshall Sir William Slim - Uncle Bill |
| . | ML | Martin Ayres | The Hundred Year's War - Part 1 |
| 12th Feb | CR | Ivor Little | The Warship that Wouldn't Die |
| . | ML | Dr Walter Murton | Snapshots - of War - The Crimea |
| 15th Jan | CR | Dennis Culligan | WWII Recollections |
| . | ML | Flip Hoorweg | The Exploits of Kampfgruppe Peiper |
| Lecture programme 2003 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 11th December | CR | Alan Sinclair | Art of the Museum Part 2 |
| . | ML | George Barrell | Russo-British Rivalry in 19th Century Afghanistan |
| 13th November | CR | Avram Pelunsky | If the Germans had known the Allies had cracked Enigma... |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | King vs Kingmaker |
| 9th October | CR | John Murray | The Sinking of the Scharnhorst, 1943 |
| . | ML | Colin Dean | The Jetrace |
| 11th September | CR | Geoff Hardy | Amazing British Bi-plane Ops of World War II |
| . | ML | Col C J Jacobs | 1st Battle of El Alamein, July 1942 - The role of the 1st SA Division |
| 14th August | CR | Terry Leaver | Douglas MacArthur |
| . | ML | Paul Schamburger | Swiss Armed Neutrality during World War Two |
| 10th July | CR | Marjorie Dean | Florence Nightingale |
| . | ML | Paul Chappe | P.R.A.W. (Police Reserve Air Wing, Rhodesia) |
| 12th June | CR | Flip Hoorweg | The USA - Arsenal of Democracy |
| . | ML | Steve Lunderstedt | Magersfontein |
| 8th May | CR | Hamish Paterson | Searching for ancestors' military records |
| . | ML | SAAACA Group | The Development of the Gun |
| 10th April | . | . | Annual General Meeting |
| . | ML | John Murray | The Easter Rising |
| 13th Mar | CR | Terry Willson | The Jacobs Gun |
| . | ML | Paul Kilmartin | The mystery of the flight of Rudolf Hess |
| 13th Feb | CR | John Bleloch | The Heliograph |
| . | ML | Achilles Kallos | The Balkan Wars of Independence 1821-1922 |
| 16th Jan | CR | Martin Ayres | SNAFU Revisited |
| . | ML | Peter Goodship | The battle of Helvetia 29 December 1900 |
| Lecture programme 2002 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 12th December | CR | Bob Smith | A Soldier's Life - General Sir Ian Hamilton |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | Charlestown to Camden, South Carolina, 1780 |
| 14th November | CR | George Barrell | Col Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, East Africa, WW1 |
| . | ML | Dr Walter Murton | The Four Battles: Greeks vs Persians 5th century BC |
| 10th October | CR | John Parkinson | HMS Durban - her first commission |
| . | ML | Flip Hoorweg | The Hurtgen Battles of 1944 and 1945 |
| 12th September | CR | Hamish Paterson | The Defence of the Oslo Fjord April 1940 |
| . | ML | Louis Wildenboer | Heavy Gustav - the story of a gun |
| 22nd August | CR | John Murray | The Micks: the Irish Guards |
| . | ML | Dr Alan Kayle | The sinking of the Birkenhead, salvage and artifacts |
| 11th July | CR | Geoff Hardy | Aspects of the Spanish Civil War |
| . | ML | Paul Schamberger | The Siege of Mafeking |
| 13th June | CR | Colin Dean | The German Underground |
| . | ML | David Williams | The Battle of Sidi Rezegh November 1941 |
| 9th May | CR | Marjorie Dean | The Historical Novel - a great place to start |
| . | ML | SAAACA Group | Bayonets |
| 11th April | . | . | Annual General Meeting |
| . | ML | Frank Bullen | The other side of the Bayeux Tapestry |
| 7th Mar | CR | George Barrell | The Experiences of a British Officer with the Pom-Pom in the Anglo-Boer War |
| . | ML | Martin Ayres | The Desert Rats in the Gulf War 1990-91 |
| 14th Feb | CR | Heinrich Janzen | The German Cruiser Prinz Eugen |
| . | ML | John Murray | The Channel Dash |
| 17th Jan | CR | Hamish Paterson | His Majesty's U-boat |
| . | ML | Jean-Louis Tavlet | The Fachoda incident from a French viewpoint |
| Lecture programme 2001 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 13th December | ML | William Lane | The War Diary of Burgher Jack Lane |
| . | CC | Hilary Bruce | The story of the War Diary Research |
| 8th November | CR | Avrun Pelunsky | The Russo-Finnish War (The Winter War) 1941 |
| . | ML | Flip Hoorweg | The Mexican War of 1846 |
| 11th October | CR | Allan Sinclair | Art of the Museum |
| . | ML | Bert Woodhouse | Prehistory of conflict: weapons and warfare in the Rock Art of Southern Africa |
| 13th September | CR | Louis Wildenboer | The Lady Roberts Gun |
| . | ML | Rod Hooper-Box | Cape Mounted Rifles |
| 16th August | CR | John Murray | Profiles in courage: Campbell VC and Esmonde VC |
| ML | Nico Othenos | Japanese Swords | |
| 12th July | CR | Flip Hoorweg | The Last Stand of the White Bread Division |
| . | ML | Pierre du Toit | Anglo-Boer War Lantern Slide Show (Boer side) |
| 14th June | CR | Geoff Hardy | General George H Thomas |
| . | ML | George Barrell | The Battle of Britain |
| 10th May | CR | Colin Dean | Early Submarines |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | The Wars of the Roses Part 2 |
| . | . | Annual General Meeting | |
| . | ML | Neil Lee | The Bayeux Tapestry |
| 8th Mar | CR | John Sutton | The British South Africa Police in the Anglo-Boer War |
| . | ML | Hendrik van Eck | Sir Charles Warren's campaign in the Northern Cape |
| . | ML | Robin Smith | The Crimean War |
| 20th Jan | CR | George Barrell | The Battle of Tannenberg, 1914 |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | The Wars of the Roses |
| Lecture programme 2000 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 14th December | CR | Martin Ayres | SNAFU Five |
| . | ML | Colin Dean | Gyroscopes in the history of modern weapons |
| 9th November | CR | Leslie Ayres | Women disguised as men in war |
| . | ML | Dr Walter Murton | Star Wars |
| 12th October | CR | Louis Wildenboer | The Paris Gun |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | Clive: Calcutta to Plassey |
| 14th September | CR | John Murray | Nelson meets Wellington: Autumn 1805 |
| . | ML | Peter Goodship | The Political Battle of Nooitgedacht |
| 10th August | CR | Martin Ayres | One day in Military History |
| ML | Rob Milne | Anecdotes of the Anglo-Boer War | |
| 13th July | CR | Dr Walter Murton | The Gulf War |
| . | ML | George Barrell | The Battle of Britain: the Truth behind the Heroics |
| 8th June | CR | Marjorie Dean | The Boxer Rebellion: China 1900 |
| . | ML | Harold Miller | Experiences of a private soldier in a WW2 POW Camp |
| 11th May | CR | Lyn Miller | An Anglo-Boer War Lantern Slide Show |
| . | ML | Elsabe Brink | The Plight of Johannesburg civilians prior to the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War |
| . | . | Annual General Meeting | |
| . | ML | John Murray | The Fighting Gurkhas |
| 9th Mar | CR | Hamish Paterson | The Battle of Coutras: Huguenots versus Catholics, France 1587 |
| . | ML | Barbara Conradie | The History of the Standard Bank during the Anglo-Boer War |
| 10th Feb | CR | Avran Pelunsky | 1999 - A Century of Strategic Importance |
| . | ML | Flip Hoorweg | The Battle of the Three Emperors - Austerlitz, 1805 |
| 20th Jan | CR | Heinrich Janzen | The Battle of Isandlwana |
| . | ML | George Barrell | Lord Methuen. |
| Lecture programme 1999 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 9 December | CR | Peter Marr | The Northumberland volunteers in the Anglo-Boer War |
| . | ML | Peter Goodship | Nooitgedacht re-assessed |
| 11 November | CR | J Murray | The Irish regiments of the First World War |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | Natal Volunteers |
| 14 October | CR | H Janzen | Battle of Elandslaagte |
| . | ML | Dr Felix Machanik | The Lancers in the Anglo-Boer War |
| 9 September | CR | Marjorie Dean | The battle for Atlanta |
| . | ML | Prof Greg Cuthbertson | The Pro-Boer movement during the Anglo-Boer War |
| 12 August | CR | Colin Dean | Early submarines and torpedoes |
| . | ML | Dr Jane Carruthers | Boer War artist - Melton Prior |
| 8 July | CR | Flip Hoorweg | Naval Disasters |
| . | ML | S Murray | The English Longbow |
| 10 June | CR | J van der Merwe | Warships at Knysna |
| . | ML | Prof Jack Lambert | Experiences of Natal loyal africans during the Anglo Boer War |
| 13 May | CR | George Barrell | The Success of the Blitzkrieg : The Battle of France 1940 |
| . | ML | Rod Hooper-Box | Long Rifles in Battle 1795-1902 - British Weapons in South Africa |
| 8 April | . | . | Annual General Meeting |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | The Battles of Lexington and Concord: The American War of Independence -- 1775 |
| 11th Mar | CR | Dr W Murton | Two Crossings of the Atlantic in Wartime (Plebian Out-Supremo Home) |
| . | ML | Penny Grimbeek | Smuts the Man |
| 11th Feb | CR | Prof Ian Copley | A Tour of Hartebeespoort during the Anglo-Boer War |
| . | ML | Martin Ayres | Marlborough - Britain's Greatest General |
| 14 Jan | CR | L Wildenboer | Homemade Artillery |
| . | ML | Kemsley-Couldridge | Some Ethereal Aspects of War |
| Lecture programme 1998 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 10th Dec: | CR | Martin Ayres | SNAFU 4 |
| . | ML | Flip Hoorweg | A Bridge Too Far |
| 12th Nov: | CR | John Murray | Henry V's Agincourt Campaign of 1415 |
| . | ML | Martin Ayres | Napoleon's Invasion of Russia in 1812 |
| 8 Oct: | CR | L Wildenboer | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| . | ML | H Paterson | The Decision to Drop the Bomb |
| 10 Sept: | CR | G Barrell | The Yom Kippur War - 1973 |
| . | ML | W Murton | Unsung Heroes |
| 13th Aug: | CR | Colin Dean | The Fish That Sank |
| . | ML | Prof C Miller | Canada Goes to War 1899-1900 |
| 9th July | CR | Prof Ian Copley | What Happened to Veldkornet F Kruger |
| . | ML | Dr R Williams | MK Operations |
| 11th June | CR | Terry Willson | A Relic from Berea: Facts and Speculation, or Coincidence |
| . | ML | B K Couldridge | The Scottish Dirk: From Ballocks to Kidneys to Jewellery |
| 14th May | ML | F W Bullen | All the Queen's Men |
| . | ML | Lt-Gen. J Dutton | With the Armour in Korea |
| 16th April | CR | Annual General Meeting | |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | The Great Mariannas Turkey Shoot |
| 12th March | CR | Martin Ayres | Military Incompetence |
| . | ML | Maj-Gen R de Vries | Case Studies in Mechanised Warfare |
| 12th Feb 98 | CR | John Murray | The Massacre of Glencoe-- 1692 |
| . | ML | Prof Deon Fourie | The Evolution of Regimental Colours in SA |
| 15 Jan 98 | CR | Rev N R Campbell | Chaplain Smith at Rourkes Drift |
| . | ML | Colin Dean | Solving an Enigma: How the puzzles of the Enigma Code machine Were Solved |
| Lecture programme 1997 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | . | Lecturer | Title |
| 11th Dec 97 | CR | F Machanik | The Zion Mule Corps at Gallipoli-- April 1915 |
| . | ML | W Murton | Words and Music During Conflict |
| 13th Nov 97 | CR | Colin Dean | Chinese War strategies as expounded by Sun Tzu |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | The Battle of Leyte Gulf - October 1944 |
| 9th October | CR | John Murray | The Battle of Flodden - 1513 - England v Scotland |
| . | ML | Dimitri Friend | The Unwomanly Face of War - Russian women in WW2 |
| 11th September | CR | H Janzen | Nowotny's Final Encounter -- 1844 |
| . | ML | BEK Couldridge | The Battle of The Little Big Horn - The Greasy Grass -- 1876 |
| 14 August 97 | . | Deputy Defence Minister Ronnie Kasrils | Umkhonto weSizwe |
| . | . | Cdr M Bisset | Navy's 75th anniversary |
| . | . | Heinrich Janzen | Parade of the Imperial Light Horse on the occasion of the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1947 |
| 10 July 97 | CR | John Murray | The Irish Guards |
| . | ML | Marjorie Dean | When Billy met Jamie: The Battle of the Boyne -- 1690 |
| 12 June 97 | CR | Flip Hoorweg | What the history books don't tell you about D-Day |
| . | ML | David Ransom | The eagle soars: The growth of the RAF |
| 8 May 97 | CR | George Barrell | The experiences of a teenager in the Blitz |
| . | ML | Louis Wildenboer | The battleship |
| 10 April 97 | AGM | . | Annual General Meeting |
| . | ML | Capt Ivor Little | The Scottish Navy |
| 13th March | CR | Martin Ayres | The Unluckiest Division in World War 1 |
| . | ML | Louis Wildenboer | The English Castle |
| 13th Feb | CR | Rev N R Campbell | Did the Boers have chaplains? |
| . | ML | Hamish Paterson | The Fetterman Disaster of 1866 in the American Indian wars |
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