The South African
Military History Society

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Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging

Archive of selected lectures

Johannesburg
Subject	Speaker	Where & when
Dresden: 13 February 1945	John Myburgh	Johannesburg February 2018 - main lecture
Poets and Poems of World War I	Nick Cowley & Dot Hodgkiss	Johannesburg October 2015 - curtain raiser
A name amongst seafaring men	Capt I Little	Johannesburg March 2015 - curtain raiser
Songs of World War I	Nick Cowley	Johannesburg October 2014 - main lecture
Diving the wreck of the SS Thistlegorm	Garth & Stephanie Harris	Johannesburg September 2014 - main lecture
The Longitude Problem	Gil Jacobs	Johannesburg June 2014 - main lecture
President Lincoln's Spy	Marjorie Dean	Johannesburg June 2014 - curtain raiser
Focke Wulf 190	Tim Waudby	Johannesburg November 2013 - curtain raiser
HMS Durban in the Mediterranean 1935-36	Jon Parkinson	Johannesburg September 2013 - main lecture
De la Rey - the Lion of the West	John Bleloch	Johannesburg September 2013 - curtain raiser
Scapa Flow & the History beneath the Waves	Alan Mantle	Johannesburg August 2013 - main lecture
The War in North Africa 1940-43 - Union of SA's contribution	James Jacobs	Johannesburg June 2013 - curtain raiser
1922: Captain Fulford and the Boksburg Incident	Terry Willson	Johannesburg June 2013 - main lecture
Dr Jim and the Matabele War of 1893 [WW II]	Chris Ash	Johannesburg May 2013 - curtain raiser
The Battle of Taranto [WW II]	Colin Harris	Johannesburg May 2013 - main lecture
SMS Konigsberg [1915]	Pierre du Toit	Johannesburg April 2013 - main lecture
How Germany Lost the War in 1941	Ann Bourdin	Johannesburg March 2013 - curtain raiser
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry 16th October 1859	Robin Smith	Johannesburg March 2013 - main lecture
A paper of the American Civil War	J F Myburgh	Johannesburg February 2013 - main lecture
Kitchener of Khartoum	Dr Anne Samson	Johannesburg November 2012 - main lecture
A Century of Mud 1860-1960	Ann Bourdin	Johannesburg September 2010 - main lecture
The Battle of Pharsalis 48BC	Hamish Paterson	Johannesburg June 2010 - curtain raiser
Second Phase of the Second SA War of Independence.	Dr John Bleloch	Johannesburg February 2011 - Main lecture
El Wak or Bust!	Emile Coetzee	Johannesburg October 2010 - curtain raiser
Zulu Civil War 1883-88.	Ken Gillings	Johannesburg October 2010 - Main lecture
Adowa 1896	Col Jas Jacobs	Johannesburg September 2010 - curtain raiser
Italian POWs in WWII	Emilio Coccia	Johannesburg May 2010 - curtain raiser
Leonardo's War Machines	Alan Mantle	Johannesburg February 2010 - main lecture
World War One	Paul Kilmartin	Johannesburg November 2009 - main lecture
Thermopylae & Salamis 480 BC	Ann Bourdin	Johannesburg September 2009 - curtain raiser
The Royal Marines by Land by Sea	John S Murray	Johannesburg October 2008 - main lecture
The Aftermath of the Anglo Boer War	Ken Gillings	Johannesburg July 2008 - main lecture
Four Exceptional Women of the Boer War	Felicia Fourie	Johannesburg July 2008 - curtain raiser
The Suez Canal 1956	Alan Mantle	Johannesburg June 2008 - main lecture
Shiloh - the emergence of Grant	Robin Smith	Johannesburg March 2008 - main lecture
The Basuto Wars 1820-1881	Col James Jacobs	Johannesburg December 2007 - main lecture
Captain Robert Nairac GC	John S Murray	Johannesburg December 2007 curtain-raiser
The Battle of the River Plate	Roslyn Peter	Johannesburg November 2007 curtain-raiser
1066 - a year that changed England forever	Martin Ayres	Johannesburg October2007 - curtain-raiser
Edward Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria	John Cramp	Johannesburg September 2007 curtain-raiser
The "San Boats" - Eagle Oil at War	Ivor Little	Johannesburg August 2007 curtain-raiser
Seven Battles that shaped SA	David Williams	Johannesburg March 2007 curtain-raiser
The Natal Volunteers	Terry Willson	Johannesburg December 2006 curtain-raiser
Some Arctic activities: Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kellett	John Parkinson	Johannesburg September 2006 curtain-raiser
Oranje Vrijstaat Artillerie Corps	M C Heunis	Johannesburg August 2006 curtain-raiser
From wooden walls to Dreadnoughts: gun, armour, ram or torpedo?	Captain Ivor Little	Johannesburg August 2006
Henry V and Joan of Arc	Martin Ayres	Johannesburg July 2006
POW camps in the UK in WWII	Colin Dean	Johannesburg June 2006
Bridge on River Kwai	Bob Smith	Johannesburg May 2006
Antietam - the civil war's bloodiest day	Robin Smith	Johannesburg March 2006
Italian participation in the Anglo-Boer War	Mario Lupini	Johannesburg February 2006 - main lecture
Three Battles of Gaza 1917	Avram Pelunsky	Johannesburg February 2006 - curtain raiser
Flying Bombs	Colin Dean	Johannesburg December 2005

Durban
Subject	Speaker	Where & when
From Normandy to Eagle's Nest	Charles Whiteing	KZN 2006

Eastern Cape
Subject	Speaker	Where & when
Against all odds - the defence of Rorkes Drift	Tiaan Jacobs	Port Elizabeth - February 2016