Mike the Warthog
@thyphoidjack
Former SA Navy (E1 - O5) I also talk a lot of smack for someone who falls over while putting their underwear on Divide et Impera
Tea party photoshoot I had with my daughter just before I cleared out of the #SANavy.
On July 25, 1993, a horrific massacre took place at St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, an event that continues to haunt the memory of that tragic day. 11 murdered, 58 injured. Seventeen-year-old Richard O'Kill was killed instantly by a bullet to the head as he heroically…
Soviet military advisor during Angolan Civil War 1975 with either T-54/ T-55 in background Note the Cuban or Angolan made Ephod style Assault Vest in Cuban Lizard camo.
SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. 27 July: 1861 The Port Elizabeth Naval Volunteer Brigade is raised by Capt Chapman who had commanded a Naval Brigade in India. The Port Elizabeth Brigade is short-lived and probably never officially recognised. 1900 The tender of Sir John Jackson…
11 Field Company South African Engineer Corps clear rubble from Route 6 at Monte Cassino.
2nd S.A. Division Troops watch Italian POW's from the 55th Savona Infantry Division being marched away after capturing the Axis Garrison at Halfaya on 17 January 1942.
At the Military Academy in Saldanha (Western Cape), this monument was unveiled to commemorate the creation of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) from the different military and para-military forces that existed before 1994.
SA Naval Heritage Day-by-Day. 26 July: 1971 SAS Johanna van der Merwe (Lt Cdr T.J. Honiball) conducts her first dive in St Nazaire, France. 1976 Cdr R. Auer assumes command of SAS Emily Hobhouse for her 2nd commission, C Navy V Adm J. Johnson was in attendance. 1985 The last of…
On 23 April 1979, Rifleman Feliciano Costa was on patrol in hostile territory in Angola, as a member of the SADF's 32 Battalion. 16 kilometers north of the Angolan border, his 11 man patrol engaged a platoon of communist guerillas. After a brief fire fight in the rough country,…
Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel questioning South African and British Senior officers captured at Tobruk on 21 June 1942.
This photograph shows a train that was derailed during the Second Anglo-Boer War near Pretoria in 1900. Railways were a key part of British military logistics, used to move troops, equipment, and supplies across South Africa. Boer commandos often targeted railway lines to disrupt…
Major General Poole Inspecting South African Graves in the 6th South African Armoured Division Cemetery at Castiglione dei Pepoli.
July 1900, saw the men 1st Queen’s Own Camerons Highlanders and the Lovat Scouts working together to help complete the encirclement of the Boer Forces of General Marthinus Prinsloo in the Wittebergen Mountains during the 2nd Boer War. By July 1900, Prinsloo’s troops were one of…
Field Marshal Jan Smuts being briefed by Major-General Poole GOC 6th South African Armoured Division in Chiusi on 24 June 1944 with Lieutenant-General Sir Pierre van Ryneveld looking on.
The Market House and Post Office, Pietermaritzburg, 1897📷 This 1897 photo shows the Market House and Post Office in Pietermaritzburg, the capital of the former Colony of Natal. At the time, Pietermaritzburg was a key administrative centre in the region. The Market House served…
Nice photo Old Railway Police walking along a quay in harbour
