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Lieutenant Thomas Trevor Robinson MC – South African Engineering Corps

SAMVOA Victoria - Vale Veteran Tom Robinson MC Lt Robinson secures a route for the 8th Army onto the Tripoli Plains Tom Robinson MC SA...

Lt. Perry James Childs HCS - South African Air Force

SAMVOA Victoria - Veteran Perry Childs HCS A large group of enemy was detected on 27 March 1976, so three helicopters were sent in to...

L/Cpl Johannes Antonie Venter HCS - South African Infantry Corps

SAMVOA New South Wales - Veteran Toni Venter HCS Venter, Lance Corporal Johannes Antonie (44 BDE, SAI, HCS) Lance-Corporal Venter was a...

Trooper Kevin Piccione HCS - South African Armoured Corps

SAMVOA New Zealand - Veteran Kevin Piccione HCS On 26 December, 1975,Second-Lieutenant Chris de Wet was ordered to ascertain the status...

108521 - Lieutenant Edward Theodore Strever

Remembering The Kipper Fleet, RAF Coastal Command in World War Two July 2, 2014 · 108521 - Lieutenant Edward Theodore Strever (South African

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SAMVOA WA - Battle of Delville Wood Commemorative Service

17th July 2021 Written by Veteran Garth Anton Pienaar Official Photographer Veteran Wayne Rochat On Saturday, 17 July 2021 SAMVOA WA held...

Operation Savannah

A Secret War in Angola - The Troops' Diaries Volume One & Volume Two By those who were there August 1975 to March 1976 - Previously...

SAMVOA QUEENSLAND AND NORTHERN TERRITORY SOCIAL GATHERING AT BIDDIDDIBA

Facebook Post by Koos de Wet 17 November 2021 Thursday November 11 at 11h00, SAMVOA Queensland and Northern Territory Chairman Shaun...

2021 - Remembrance Day Commemoration in Cambridge , Waikato , New Zealand, SAMVOA

Facebook post by Chris Pattison 12th November 2021 Normally, we attend the Armistice Commemoration held each year on a Sunday in...

Remembrance Day 2021

Facebook post by Bob Green on 29th March 2022 Pictured on Remembrance day 2021 are Warragul RSL members and former South African Military...

2021 - Albury Armistice Day Service, Canterbury NZ SAMVOA

Facebook post by Rich Hurt 11 November 2021 SAMVOA Canterbury represented at the Albury Armistice Day service in Mackenzie District. A...

2021 - Remembrance Day - Ringwood RSL, SAMVOA

Facebook post by Richard Southey 11th November 2021 I donned my SAMVOA kit and dog tags this morning to attend a short but touching...

2021 SAMVOA Chairman's Cup

Facebook post by Richard Southey 30 October 2021 It gives me great pleasure to announce that the winners of the SAMVOA Chairman's Cup for...

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, OM, CH, DTD, ED, PC, KC, FRS

(24 May 1870 to 11 September 1950) Field Marshall and Politician Source: South African History on Line; General Jan Christiaan Smuts was...

Miss Ethel Campbell MBE

"The Angel of Durban" (1866 to 1954) Ethel Campbell was born in her mother’s homeland, Scotland, but raised in her father’s home, South...

Shaka Zulu

King of the Zulu Kingdom 1816 to 1828 Shaka Zulu - Source; Wikipedia Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. July 1787 – 22 September 1828), also known...

Adolph Gysbert Malan DFC

(1910 to 1963) Famous South African pilot in World War 2 - Known as "Sailor Malan" Distinguished Flying Cross Adolph "Sailor Malan" was...

JACKIE THE BABOON

Jackie – the baboon mascot of the 3rd South African Infantry Brigade Jackie the baboon was not as well-known as “Nancy”, the springbok...

ABLE SEAMAN JUST NUISANCE

The story of Able Seaman Just Nuisance is well known by most ex-navy veterans on the WWII period and still related by serving naval...