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UPDATED: 25/05/2023 25 May 1875, Police Constable Pieter Sam executed in Kimberley for murdering two prisoners. This is the first execution in Kimberley. 25 May 1893, Air Vice Marshal Sir Christopher Quintin Brand born in Beaconsfield. 25 May 1984, Sister ...

DID YOU KNOW? That Kimberley’s link with the Royal Air Force and the Battle of Britain in WW 2 is not just with Group Captain AG “Sailor” Malan? Two other Kimberley men involved were Sir Christopher Quentin Brand and Albert ...