Sabretache articles from March 2001

Sabretache archives from March 2001

Artillery and Australia.
March 1, 2001... Forget not your great guns for they are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. -- Frederick the Great It is interesting that this advice came from one of the most competent commanders of the latter half of the 18th...

The South African War, 1899-1902 -- stray thoughts on its history and its literature.
March 1, 2001... Common sense, the resourcefulness which is born of a varied experience, and the habit of dealing with questions of organisation to suit special circumstances, are alone to be relied on where a new army has to be constituted from the disjecta...

John (Ivan) Armstrong -- Russian Cannon maker (1).
March 1, 2001... From time to time someone transcribes the Cyrillic script on the trunnions of trophy guns captured during the Crimean War 1854-7, and is surprised when the result reveals the name Armstrong. In connection with the history of the development of...

Researching the South African War in South Africa.
March 1, 2001... My commission from the Australian War Memorial to write a new history of Australians and what used to be called the Boer war took me to South Africa last year. I went primarily to read records that historians before me had lacked the...

Rhodesian field force graves in Zimbabwe from the South African War: with particular reference to Marondera/Marandellas.
March 1, 2001... The late Colonel A S Hickman did much to document the incidents and associated sites relating to the part played by Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the events of the South African War of 1899-1902. His research took him to many interesting locations...

Corrigenda.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2001... Some errors intruded into Max Chamberlain's paper, `Tailing the Boer -- Australian Mobile Operations in the Boer War', in Sabretache, Vol XLI, No 3, September 2000: * page 3, footnote 4: The source for Australia should read `Australians:...

Members' notices.
March 1, 2001... WANTED BWM & VIC MEDAL to 605 CPL C F PARDOE, DCM 26 Bn AIF to Reunite Group Please contact Richard Johnstone on (08) 9364 8216 or rich@cockburn.wa.gov.au

Around the water cart.
March 1, 2001... The city of Albany WA is setting aside Anzac Day 2001 to commemorate the important it played in the embarkation of the Australian Light Horse to World War I and its historical importance as the `jumping off' point for the first convoy. Of...