The Cape Colonial Forces (CCF) were the official defence organisation of the Cape Colony in South Africa. Established in 1855, they were taken over by...
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Coloured people and Whites Cape Colonial Forces Cape Government Railways Cape Qualified Franchise Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope Dutch was the sole...
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The Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal is a British campaign medal which was awarded to members of the Cape Colonial Forces who took part in three...
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John Frederick McCrea (category Cape Colony army officers)
Regiment, Cape Mounted Yeomanry as a surgeon. McCrea was 26 years old, and a Surgeon in the 1st Cape Mounted Yeomanry, Cape Colonial Forces during the...
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authorised Colonial governments to adopt various British military medals and to award them to members of their local permanent military forces. The Cape of Good...
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current regiments include 4 Special Forces Regiment based at Langebaan in Western Cape Province, and 5 Special Forces Regiment based at Phalaborwa in the...
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Peter Brown (VC) (category Cape Colony military personnel)
British and Commonwealth forces. Brown was approximately 42 years old, and a Trooper in the Cape Mounted Riflemen, Cape Colonial Forces during the Morosi's...
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Edmund Hartley (category Cape Colony army officers)
Morosi's Revolt he served as the principal medical officer of the Cape Colonial Forces. During the course of the campaign he organised his principal hospital...
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the first as the "imperial" Cape Mounted Riflemen (originally the "Cape Regiment"), and the second as the "colonial" Cape Mounted Riflemen. The first...
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magistrate. In 1855, the Cape Colonial Forces (CCF) were established as the official paramilitary organization of the Cape. They were formed after the...
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films (1999) Cape Colonial Forces Colony of Natal Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon History of Cape Colony from...
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South African Army (redirect from Cape Flats Commando)
separate armies of the union's four provinces (the British Cape Colonial Forces, and the forces of the Natal Colony, the Transvaal, and the Orange River...
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Robert George Scott (category British colonial army soldiers)
1878–1879. Scott was 21 years old, and a sergeant in the Cape Mounted Riflemen, Cape Colonial Forces during the Morosi's Mountain 1879 Campaign when the following...
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Basuto Gun War (category Military history of the Cape Colony)
stretched thin by the simultaneous outbreak of other revolts, the Cape Colonial Forces failed to achieve a decisive military victory. The ensuing military...
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Alfred Shout (category British colonial army soldiers)
the Cape Colonial Forces. He was made a sergeant in Prince Alfred's Own Cape Field Artillery, with which he served until 1907. While living in Cape Town...
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Colonial Armies 1885–1902 Cape Colonial Forces...
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Victoria authorised Colonial governments to adopt various British military medals and to award them to their local military forces. The Cape of Good Hope introduced...
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African Defence Forces (SADF) units, 32 Battalion was mainly deployed in southern Angola, acting as a buffer between the SADF's regular forces and its enemies...
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South African National Defence Force (redirect from South African Forces)
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) comprises the armed forces of South Africa. The Chief of the SANDF is appointed by the President of South...
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The Cape Town Highlanders is a reserve mechanised infantry regiment of the South African Army. Descendants of Scottish immigrants to South Africa raised...
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Zachary Bayly (military officer) (category British military personnel of the 9th Cape Frontier War)
War in Basutoland. Col Bayly served as Commandant-General of the Cape Colonial Forces from 1882 until he retired in 1892. *Moodie, Duncan Campbell Francis...
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Hottentoten"), which was organised in 1781 by the Dutch colonial administration of the time.: 51 Based in Cape Town and drawing its members from men of mixed...
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respective militia forces and navies until 1 March 1901, when the colonial forces were all amalgamated into the Commonwealth Forces following the creation...
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Colonial Armies 1885–1902 Cape Colonial Forces...
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Xhosa Wars (redirect from Cape Frontier Wars)
British Empire as well as Trekboers from the Dutch colonial empire in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. These events were the longest-running...
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Henry Lukin (category British emigrants to the Cape Colony)
1900 to 1901 he commanded the Cape Mounted Riflemen, from 1904 to 1912 he was Commandant-General of the Cape Colonial Forces and in 1912 Inspector-General...
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The British Colonial Auxiliary Forces were the various military forces (each composed of one or more units or corps) of Britain's colonial empire which...
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(1844–1909), his son, South African officer in the British Army and Cape Colonial Forces This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same...
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Transkei, Basutoland and Bechuanaland. The Cape Mounted Yeomanry was disbanded in 1881. Cape Colonial Forces "Cape Mounted Yeomanry". Standard Encyclopaedia...
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style-purists among architects could not escape the forces of context and culture. Dutch colonial architecture often is a result of climatological adaptations...
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