Sandfontein, Battle of.

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ZA SMM001 #_#_A416_#
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South African National Museum of Military History
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National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
Description
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-- Article - The story of Sandfontein - extracts from German accounts of the fight at Sandfontein, 26.9.1914.
-- Unrecorded details of Sandfontein - some impressions.
-- Copy of cablegrams - Luderitzbucht, 23.12.1914.
-- Letter re Sandfontein by FB Adler, 14.9.1949.
-- Correspondence of JJ Collyer and RC Grant, May 1936.
-- Report by RC Grant to Collyer, 31.5.1936.
-- Copy of report to the Secretary of Defence by RC Grant.
-- Letter from JJ Collyer to RC Grant that he was not to blame, 3.9.1915.
-- Present list of Unit at Sandfontein.
-- List of casualties and those killed, compiled by EJ Welbey.
-- Correspondence by EJ Welbey, 19.2.1915.
-- Union Castle Line paper - letter from a friend, 1915.
-- Letter to JJ Collyer from JS Wakefield, 10.3.1936.
-- Kriegsnachrichten, 15.5.1915, 19.6.1915, 23.6.1915, 26.6.1915.
-- Article - Battle at Sandfontein.
-- Article - Battle at Sandfontein by J Ploeger.
-- Photographs of RC Grant.

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Manuscript