Category: Commonwealth

Not for Ourselves, but for Others

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SS Mendi Remembrance & Wreath Laying, Noordwijk, the Netherlands

In what has become an annual event embraced by the South African Embassy in The Hague as well as the municipality of Noodwijk, a dignified ceremony honoured the fallen South African servicemen of the SS Mendi (at least five of whom lie buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Noordwijk General Cemetery), as well as all fallen South African servicemen and women.

Carpane – 75th Anniversary of the Grappa Massacres

Operation Piave In the period of the 20th to the 29th September 1944 a number of massacres and reprisals (Operation Piave) took place in the Grappa region of Italy when…
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The SA Legion once again Marches in the Cenotaph Parade

LONDON, November 2019 The  South  African  Legion  of Military  Veterans  we  know today was  born of the British  Empire  Service  League  (BESL),  which  was  founded  in  1921  by Field Marshall…
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