Covid may have curtailed activities but the flame is being kept alive. Please read this newsletter for some interesting activities coming down the line: Click on link below. SA National Society Sept 2020 Newsletter
SA National Society – August 2020 Newsletter
Click on the link below for the August 2020 Newsletter from the Chair-lady. Also attached are the banking details of the Dennis Hurley Centre who are appealing for funds. (See more details in the newsletter.) August 2020 Newsletter Hurley Centre
May Newsletter and Article on Florence Nightingale
Click on the links below to access the May 2020 newsletter and the article on Florence Nightingale, commemorating 200 years since her birth. SANS Letter May 2020 SANS – Florence Nightingale
Killie Campbell Bursary
It is with regret that the Committee has decided not to award the Killie Campbell Bursary in 2020 . Please click on the link below to access the letter in that regards, from our Chairlady. KCB-Letter
SANS – July Newsletter
Please find below our July Newsletter from our Chairman. The July presenter is Steven Kotze who has provided us with an article on the 1918 Flu Epidemic. See the link below to Historia for this article. SANS Newsletter July
Boer War Post Cards
Below are a few more of the postcards given to me (Hugh Bland) by my friend. They were sent to a Mrs Beatrice Hartley immediately after the end of the Boer War from her brother Edward and Victor (unknown)
SA National Society – June 2020 Newsletter
South Africa in Sydney by Tony Voss
Naval Display – Spithead – July 1914
A postcard showing The Great Fleet assembled at Spithead for the King’s Review. A notation says “9 Miles of Ships” and is dated July 1914, just prior to the start of WWI. Britannia certainly ‘Ruled The Waves’. This amazing image
Selbourne – Lynton Hall
Lynton Hall was built in 1895 for Charles Partridge Reynolds, near Pennington. The building was designed by architect, William Street-Wilson and Fyfe’s partners, James W Paton & Wishart. Sadly, the original drawings for the house have been lost. The castellated
Tribute to Leon Hurst Nicholson
Nicholson, Leon Hurst 22.02.1928 – 20.04.2020 Leon Nicholson was a long standing member of the South African National Society and for many years a member of the Committee until his increasing deafness forced him to resign from the Committee. Leon