Burger Unie of the ZAR

[zarmaniac]

Hi

Can anyone help me with information regarding this organisation? The Burgher Unie of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek.

Apparently there were 300 members who all received a 9ct gold medallion with membership number stamped on the back, and only 12 female members?

Genl Jan Smuts was also a member and his membership number was No 218. There is a full members list, but none of the museums could help...

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks

[peter monahan]

Zarmaniac - my interest is in more modern African medals than these but we have several expert members who I'm sure can help once they see this post.  Mervyn, one of the senior moderators is resident in SA and ran a militaria shop there for years and Chris Boonzaier is also very expert on the South African wars and, I believe, reads Afrikkans, in which I suspect much of the information about this group is written.  I'll direct their attention to this post and I'm sure they will have some suggestions.

Mervyn may also want to move this post to the colonial wars forum, due to its nature but I'll leave that to him to decide.

Peter