While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen’s ...
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.
Charles Harold Soder, of Zanesville, formerly of Newark, enlisted at age 15 in the U.S. Army as 18-year-old Frank Charles ...
Lance Corporal Haydn Carlyle Phillips, a former Lewis School Pengam pupil, was gassed in the German Spring Offensive of March ...
They were ferrying supplies to Union of South Africa forces which had invaded German South West Africa ... each of these World War I labour corps veterans with an African iroko hardwood post ...