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secured by pumping out the diamond mines and a position of vantage was made for Lieutenantcolonel Robert Kekewich by making a conningtower (a commander’s look-out point) out of the mineshaft winding gear. Labram then started making shells for the 7-pounder guns in the De Beers
workshops. His crowning achievement was the design and construction of “Long Cecil”. The Boer
75mm gunfire had been causing a good deal of discomfort and danger, but the little 7-pounders
available to the British were too small to strike back. Labram therefore made a 4-inch gun and the
ammunition to fire from it. The range it attained was said to be 8,000 yards (7,300m). The Boer
reaction was to bring the Long Tom that had been damaged at Ladysmith, now repaired with a
shortened barrel and nick-named “The Jew”, with which to counter the fire of Long Cecil. On the
evening of 9 February 1900 George Labram was changing for dinner in his hotel room when he was
killed by a Long Tom shell.
See also:
Artillery, Boer; Kimberley, Siege of.
Reference:
Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Labuschagnes Nek, Battle of,
4–5 March 1900
The road from Dordrecht northwards to Jamestown and thence to Aliwal North runs through a pass
called Labuschagnes Nek, through which Brigadier-general E. Y. Brabant attempted to cut off the
retreating Boer Commandant J. H. Olivier and his men in March 1900. The pass was held by some
1,200 Boers who had built a laager there and who held out for almost three days, permitting Olivier
to recross the Orange River into the Orange Free State.
See also:
Cape Colony, Invasions of.
Reference:
Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999); Oosthuizen, A. V., A Guide to the Battlefields,
Graves and Monuments of the Anglo-Boer War in the North Eastern Cape (Bloemfontein, The
War Museum of the Boer Republics, 1998).
Ladybrand
Ladybrand overlooks the valley of the Caledon River on the eastern border of the Orange Free State.
It was garrisoned by the 2nd Worcesters on 21 July 1900 and besieged briefly at the end of August by
some 3,000 Boers under Commandant P. J. Fourie. A column under Lieutenant-colonel W. L. White
forced them to withdraw when it seized the Platberg, a hill dominating the town.
See also:
Brandwater Basin, Surrender at.
Reference:
Jones, Huw G. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Milton
Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
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