South Africa Military Records

Africa South Africa

For any queries regarding military history, contact the Department of Defence Archives at the South African Military Records Centre via email at [mailto:sandfdoc@mweb.co.za sandfdoc@mweb.co.za]. They are located at: Schweikert Building 20 Visagie Street Pretoria Telephone: (012) 339-4600 Fax: (012) 339-4631

Military Records
Research use: To locate information on an individual involved in the Anglo - Boer War.

Record type: Records dealing with those who fought in the Anglo - Boer War.

Time period: 1899-1911.

Contents: Varies. Archives of the Commandant - General, Transvaal Republic: list of citizens, requisition lists, taxation lists. Archives of the Intelligence Officer, Pretoria: lists of farms, and their owners, registers of burghers, lists of prisoners of war. Archives of the Officer Charged with Gathering Information Concerning Death Among the Republican Fighting Forces and the Civilian Population, 1899-1902: name of the deceased, age, address, and the cause, date and place of death. Archives of the Staff Officer, Prisioners of War, Capetown: list of prisioners released on parole or who took oath of allegiance, and list of undesirable aliens deported.

Location: Government archives, Pretoria.

Population coverage: 10% of Caucasian male population.

Reliability: Good.

Websites

 * Second World War Dead
 * Soldiers in African Forces
 * Military Index 1853-2004 Ancestry ($)
 * Military Records South Africa
 * South African Military History Society
 * South Africa Military Records
 * South Africa: War Graves Project Database
 * Military records transcribed
 * Boer (South African) War 1899-1902
 * Military Police Corps 1939-1946