THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIELD POST AND TELEGRAPH CORPS (1914-1915)

dc.creator	Jan Ploeger
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:58Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/2-5-961
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8210fc7a99e94b89a3fd00a46c37860f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8608
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/8210fc7a99e94b89a3fd00a46c37860f
dc.description	a. Before the formation of the Union <br />Three hundred and seventy years separate the reader from 7th July, 1501, the day on which the Portuguese mariner Joao de Nova, landed at Mosselbay to place a letter in an old shoe in the hope that one of his countrymen would visit the "Post Office Tree" and would find and read this - the oldest known postal article of our country's history.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/961
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 2, Iss 5 (2012)
dc.subject	"Post Office Tree"
dc.subject	"Post Office Stones"
dc.subject	Adriaan Vincent Berg
dc.subject	A. B. Ziervogel
dc.subject	28th December 1791
dc.subject	first South African Postmaster General
dc.subject	Military Postal Service
dc.subject	Anglo-Boer War
dc.subject	(Act No. 10, 1911)
dc.subject	South African Defence Act, 1912
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.subject	Military Science
dc.subject	U
dc.title	THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIELD POST AND TELEGRAPH CORPS (1914-1915)
dc.type	Article