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Featured
image : Australian War Memorial, London
The beautiful, sweeping curve of the West Australian green granite wall at Hyde Park Corner has the 24,000 names of the home towns and villages of the Australian service personnel who fought in both world wars. By use of subtle highlighting of some l...
Gallery updated : 10th Nov 2009
Featured battle : Kraaipan, Action at (12 October 1899)
The first action of the 2nd Boer war. De La Rey's Commando took the Station at Kraaipan on the railway to Mafeking, destroying the lines. The following day, an armoured train with 13 Mashonaland Police under Lieutenant R.C. Nesbit was overrun.
Database updated : 29th Mar 2009
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