Remembering fallen soldiers

Moths and members of the SA Legion laid wreaths at the Wall of Remembrance and stones were piled up as symbols of commemoration for fallen soldiers.

September 9, 2018

Penelope Masilela 1 minute read

Moths Sean Byrne, Roelf Rossouw, George Veliotes and Graham Denholm at the Border Veterans Parade at the Reveille Shellhole, on August 26.

The Memorable Order of Tin Hats (Moths) held a Border Veterans Parade at the Reveille Shellhole, on August 26.

Past military and civil organisations, ex-servicemen and the general public attended the parade.

Moth Joe Borain shared a bit of history of the South African Border War.

In his address he said the SA South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from August 26, 1966 to March 21, 1990.

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It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo).

The SA Border War resulted in some of the largest battles on the African continent since World War Two and was closely intertwined with the Angolan Civil War.

Moths and members of the SA Legion laid wreaths at the Wall of Remembrance and stones were piled up as symbols of commemoration for fallen soldiers.