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Hi Mike

Thanks for the info, although it mentions Russians, I know there were about 150, mostly volunteers from the Transvaal and not soldiers, do you have anything else?
cheers Soutie

Soutie

You might like to see Apollon Davidson and Irina Filatova, The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. They are two Soviet historians who have written at length on this subject both before and after the collapse of the communist regime. Best of all, I found the first 80 or so pages of their book on the web only yesterday.

On 26 June 1900, on a ridge near Lindley in Free State, Captain AEM Norton DSO, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen, shot dead a Russian in the uniform of a Russian naval lieutenant. The shot was fired over 1,200 yards. Norton was my grandfather.

A fortnight ago, in the Pretoria cemetery, I stumbled over the grave of Lt Boris von Strolman, killed near Lindley on 26 June 1900 and reinterred in Pretoria a few years later at the request of his mother in Moscow. From other evidence I'm confident this is Norton's man. On p.40 Davidson and Filatova state that Strolman, presumably a member of the Baltic German nobility which had served the Russian state for centuries, was both a volunteer and an observer for the Russian armed forces. So too was a Lt Alexander Guchkov, later Minister for War in the ill-fated Provisonal Government in 1917.

Tony

Hi Tony

Thank you for providing some little known but very interesting information. It seems that the Boer War had a nearly endless number of unusual participants who engaged in numerous incidents in obscure places. It takes a researcher such as yourself to bring this information to our attention.

Good luck with your continuing research.

Regards
Brett

I just came across this excellent review of the aforementioned book, The Russians and the Anglo-Boer War.

www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n14/rw-johnson/rogues-paradise

RUSSIA, BULGARIA & THE RUSSIAN JEWS
Russia

*Pseudonyms
Aip, Captain V. T.
Arnoldov, Sub-Lieutenant Fiodor Fiodorovich
Avgustov (Augustus), Lieutenant E F
Avtokratov, Ensign in reserve
Bagration-Mukhransky, Prince Nicolai Georgewitz
Bobrinski, Count
Busch, Victor
Canetsky, Lieutenant Count
Chulgenski, Alexander
Dashkov *
Diatropoff, Alexei Nikolaievich
Dreyer, Lieutenant Sergei
Duplov, Captain ( Utrecht 25 December 1900)
Edrikhen, Captain
Essen, Alexander Magnusovich
Ganetsky, Lt Alexis
Gringof
Guchkov, Fiodor Ivanovich
Guchkov, Captain Alexander Ivanovich
Kamarovsky, Count
Kumantzov, Piotr
Kraft, Captain
Lapidevky, Konstantin
Lewe, Leopold
Liggitz, Resto Markov
Maximov, Colonel Evgenii Jakovlevich
Nadborsky
Nakhozhin*
Nertavsky, Victor
Nikitin, Ivan
Nitikin, Vasili, Lieutenant
Nikolaev, Engineer
Petrov, Captain ( Kanonkop, Utrecht 25/12/1900)
Pokrovsky, Leo ( Kanonkop, Utrecht 25/12/1900)
Popov, Nikolai Yevgrafovich
Ripert*
Rubanov, Vladimir
Rukkert
Sandjakov
Savetsky, Adam
Savich
Schenko, Kraft
Shill, Dr
Schulzhenko, Lieutenant Alexander
Semionov, Vladimir Nikolaievich
Strolman, Lieutenant Boris ( OFS 26/06/1900)
Syrolmen (?)
Udenkyll, Gustav
Yengalychev, Mikhail Nikolaievich
Yedrikhin, Captain Alexei Yefimovich
Vysochansky, Iosif Grigorievich
Vispuksky, Cornet
Von Wrangel, Baron
Zabolotny, Ivan Kirillovich
Zigel, Dr

Bulgaria

Buzukov
Kolarov


The Russian Jews/Jews

Baben, Morris
Bengis, Aaron Falk
Cohen, Harris
Egnos, Louis
Finell, Otto
Flack, Harris
Frankel, J.
Friedgood, Markus
Gettelson, Simon
Goldblatt, Leon
Golding, I.
Groesberg, Esman
Griunshtein
Heiman, Lazarus
Herman, Isaac ( Colesberg, 1901)
Horwitz, Joseph
Hyman, Lewis
Jacobson, Philip
Jacobson, Wolf
Jonson, Johan
Judelowitz,Herman(Chaim)Field-cornet (Kheis 28/05/1900)
Judell, Marcus
Kaplan
Kasirils
Levi, Wolf
Levy, Hyman
Meirowitz, Robert
Meirowitz. Samuel Benjamin
Minski, Paul Gerchim
Nurok, Abraham Samuel
Pinkus, Aaron
Rubenstein, Elias
Segall, Moses
Segall, Joseph (Jakkals)
Schmahman, Sasha (a.k.a Jan Snyman)
Shanker, Michael
Sjawetski, Adam
Sorsky, Solomon
Strykowski, Salli
Wainer, Goodman Moses
Wainer, Solomon
Woolf, Jacob ( 18/02/1900)

Hello Everyone!

Apologies, at the outset, for this belated response to a topic that may be closed already!!

We are a museum situate on the Battlefields Route, in Kwazulu Natal in South Africa. We are privileged to received annual visits from the Russian Embassy who arrive here to pay homage to Capt Leo Pokrowski (A Russian born at Warsaw Russia) was deceased on 25 December 1900 in Utrecht against the British. Please feel free to visit this link www.st-sergius.info/en/the-rector-of-the...f-a-russian-officer/ (this is an older posting by the Orthodox Church but nonetheless assistive).

I hope this may shed some light upon any investigations!

Kind regards

Pat
Utrecht Museum
Kwazulu Natal
South Africa
+27 34 331 3249