LATEST NEWS

OUTENIQUA 
 "OUTENIQUA MOTHS, GEORGE" : Mark Rodrigues, who was in Groote
Schuur, with total paralysis, has now been moved to Lentegeur Hospital
in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, to begin rehab. After an op on his
upper spine, he has now recovered feeling in all four limbs again and
has slight movement, although very weak. We wish him the Lord's
Blessing and a successful recovery.

 

Our congratulations go out to Bill Brayfield of El Gobi Shellhole in the
Freestate who will be celebrating his 105th birthday on Wednesday16th
June
2010. This past Saturday a contingent of Moths gathered to wish him well
and to celebrate his birthday. The attached photo shows Bill seated,
with
(from right) his Shellhole, District and Provincial Old Bills and the
Old
Bill of the Order, Ola Grinaker. Bill was the Old Bill of El Gobi
Shellhole
in Tweespruit for 50 years, before standing down at age 100.

 

 

 

The photo attached shows Martin Mocke and Bill Ashton next to "B-Bliksem", a Marauder bomber of 21 Squadron (SAAF) in Italy, 1945.
Bill Ashton is the cartoonist who drew the cartoon on the plane. He is currently a Moth with Mpumalanga Shellhole in White River.
We are keen to find Martin Mocke or has family, so as to arrange a re-union with Bill of at all possible.
If you could help us by sending this message on, we would be greatly appreciative.
 
Secondly- Bill seems to think that this specific aeroplane survived the war and is on display somewhere in South Africa. Any clues?
 
Jack Swanepoel 082 739 0731 or mone@intekom.co.za



 

 

        

SPOKEN BY GREAT MEN

 

"Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will breach Europe. Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin. Give me two divisions of those marvellous fighting Boers (Meaning Farmer, originating from the Boer War) and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth."
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allled forces during WWII.

"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour and glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians have no choice. The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it."
American General, George "Guts and Glory" Patton

"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle