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From: "Lynn MacLeod" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Brabant's Horse
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:38:08 +1200
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Hi Ray
I cannot answer your question as to who/where but a good starting point
would be to try and get your hands on
Three Years War - C R de Wet - the index is not really easy to just pick out
a name - more in seiges/events so you have to really read the book
The Great Boer War - Arthur Conan Doyle which has plenty of references to
both Brabant's Horse and BRABANT himself.
Pg 363 "In the meantime the colonial division of that fine old African
fighter, General BRABANT, had begun to play its part in the campaign. Among
the many judicious arrangements which Lord ROBERTS made immediately after
his arrival at the Cape was the assembling of the greater part of the
scattered colonial bands into one division, and placing over it a General of
their own, a man who had defended the cause of the Empire both in the
legislative assembly and the field. To this force was entrusted the defence
of the country lying to the east of Gatacre's position and on 15 Feb, they
advanced from Penhoek upon Dordrecht. Their Imperial troops consisted of
the Royal Scots and a section of the 79th R.F.A, the Colonial of Brabant's
Horse, the Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles, the Cape Mounted Rifles and Cape
police, with Queenstown and East London Volunteers.....
Kinb regards
Lynn MacLeod.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Pitt"
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: [ZA] Brabant's Horse
> Good evening fellow list members,
> I was wondering if
some
> of the military buff's out there could provide me with some details of a
> colonial unit called " Brabant's Horse". Were these men recruited from
any
> one area, say for instance the Eastern Cape or Border areas? The name
> Brabant is one that I remember as there was a street in East London that
was
> called Brabant street. I presume named after the said gentleman. Just who
> was he?
> Do lists of the enlisted men in this unit exist somewhere? I have reason
to
> believe that some of my Ridgard ancestors were volunteers in this unit and
I
> want to try and find out any details of just where they enlisted and, if
> possible, their service records.


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