The Transvaal Spring Edition 2022 has been published and we are grateful to the Transvaal Regimental Association for granting their permission to publish on the website. Julia Conway, Editor of the publication has put together a 71 page magazine, packed fully of memories, well worthy...
The Transvaal Regimental Association bid farewell to their Treasurer, Maureen Merrifield (former women police member 346), at her last Committee Meeting, on Saturday 13 March 2021, at the Transvaal Scottish, Parktown. Maureen has been the Treasurer of the Transvaal Association for ten years...
The Transvaal BSAP Regimental Association held its annual Christmas gathering at "The View" in Parktown Johannesburg on Saturday 12 December 2020. The gathering was attended by more than 60 people, who feasted on good snacks including a gammon and sparkling wine was on all tables....
The BSAP Regimental Association of Transvaal has kindly granted permission to publish its November 2020 edition of The Transvaal Outpost. Thanks to Dave Holmes, Editor of this edition for his contribution. This is an information packed edition and very worthy of a read....
One of the many biographies written about Rhodes and although the name of the BSA Police is not recorded in the index includes a chapter 'Cutting the Road' about the BSACP (which is mentioned) and the Pioneer Column's march to occupy Mashonaland in 1890. Geoff Quick...
This comprehensive and interestingly composed history focuses on Rhodesia’s part in the Boer War and events leading up to it. Taken from personal research and investigation with visits to many of the sites and discussions with individuals, the author has presented his work in a...
Deals with the full history of the Jameson Raid both before and afterward. Explains how the BSA Co Police assembled at Pitsani in Bechuanaland ostensibly to protect railway construction against marauding natives. Explains how the 356-strong column set off for Johannesburg and the failed attempts...
Written from the viewpoint of a man who held a senior post in the BSA Police Co's Johannesburg office which brought him into contact with people who figured prominently in the revolutionary project including Cecil Rhodes, Jameson (whose private secretary he was from 1991-93), Dr....