Today in Kimberley's History
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First Train arrives in Kimberley - 1885
First train arrives in Kimberley on the 28th November 1885
44 days since beginning of the Siege of Kimberley, 1899
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
All our available Mounted Men, and later on some of the Lancashires (Infantry), and Town-guardsmen, took the field in the afternoon; and we heard nothing but rumours of fighting. Nobody being allowed at the Forts, or on Debris Heaps to watch events.
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
All our available Mounted Men, and later on some of the Lancashires (Infantry), and Town-guardsmen, took the field in the afternoon; and we heard nothing but rumours of fighting. Nobody being allowed at the Forts, or on Debris Heaps to watch events.
