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Elandsfontein, Action at,
29 May 1900
Elandsfontein is now called Germiston, south-east of Johannesburg. The Elandsfontein railway yards
were of considerable interest to the advancing British. The enormous length of the supply lines, some
1,000 miles back to Cape Town, meant that every wagon and steam engine was precious. The British
Commander-in-Chief Lord Roberts had sent his Chief of Scouts, Major Burnham, behind Boer lines
to prevent the rolling stock being removed. This was achieved by blowing up the line and Colonel St
G. C. Henry captured seven locomotives and many wagons, together with a hundred prisoners, on 29
May.
See also:
Burnham, Major Frederick Russell.
Reference:
Burnham, F. R., ed. Mary N. Everett, Scouting on Two Continents (New York, Doubleday, Doran &
Co., 1928); Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer
War 1899–1902 (Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
Elandslaagte, Battle of,
21 October 1899
Natal was invaded by the Boers immediately on the outbreak of war on 11 October. While Generals
Erasmus and Meyer advanced on Dundee, General Kock’s commandos cut the railway line at
Elandslaagte, twelve miles (20km) north-east of Ladysmith. Although the British inflicted a
comprehensive defeat on the Boers, the village was not defensible and the British withdrew to
Ladysmith. The British cavalry charge, which made use of the lance, horrified the Boers, who deemed
it uncivilised to fight with spears. General Kock died of his wounds. The action had provided cover
for Yule’s march to Ladysmith.
The present hamlet of Elandslaagte was, in 1899, a thriving coal-mining town through which the
railway to northern Natal still passes. Vecht-general Johannes Kock was in command of about half
the Transvaal force that invaded the colony and, while the other half went to attack the British at
Dundee, Kock’s task was to take and hold the Mkhupe Pass on the Ladysmith to Newcastle road to
prevent a counter-attack from the south. His advance guard exceeded their brief and, on 19 October,
descended
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