Tag Archives: Kimberley Boys High School

16 May 1899, Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, LC Wilkes, dies of typhus. DID YOU KNOW Leopold Complin Wilkes (pictured) was the second Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, serving in that capacity from 1893 until his untimely death ...

UPDATED: 09/05/2019 9 May 1890, The first camera club in SA is established in Kimberley with eighteen members. 9 May 1962, De Beers Sea Scout Brian Freeman awarded Boy Scout Association Meritorious Award for rescuing a woman in distress in the ...

UPDATED: 12/04/2019 12 April 1872, Historian George Beet arrives in Kimberley. 12 April 1875, Black Flag rebellion led by Alfred Aylward starts. 12 April 1878, Sir William Solomon admitted to the Cape Bar. 12 April 1887, Kimberley Boys and Girls ...

UPDATED: 12/02/2019 12 February 1872, Seat of Magistracy for Pniel District moved from Dutoitspan to New Rush. 12 February 1872, William Coates Palgrave appointed ARM for Beaconsfield. 12 February 1876, Telegraph office opens in Kimberley. 12 February 1880, SA cricketer ...

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 ...

23 October 1907, De Beers swimming pool on Warren Street opened to the public. DID YOU KNOW The De Beers’ swimming bath opened to the public on 23 October 1907. From its inception the Kimberley Boys’ High School pupils had ...

UPDATED: 08/10/2018 8 October 1918, Spanish Flu has Kimberley in its deathly grip and fatalities mount. DID YOU KNOW On this day, 8 October 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic had Kimberley in its death grip. Both the Kimberley High School ...

27 August 1914, Kimberley Defence Rifle Association formed. 27 August 1916, SA rugby player and cricketer Tony Harris born. DID YOU KNOW Terence Anthony Harris, known to all and sundry as Tony, was born in Barkly West on 27 August ...

UPDATED: 25/07/2018 25 July 1965, William Benbow Humphreys, (pictured) art collector extraordinaire dies. 25 July 2002, Great CBC athlete and Springbok rugby player Pat Lyster dies. Also pictured is Lyster winning the SA Junior Championships 100 yards at the De ...

20 July 1971, Basil Humphreys, (pictured), benefactor of Kimberley and son of William, dies. DID YOU KNOW Basil William Clayton Humphreys DSC. The son of William Benbow Humphreys and Maude Elizabeth Humphreys (nee Searle), Basil was born in Kimberley on ...