SIEGE OF MAFEKING: COLIN WALKER

A series of webpages about the Siege of Mafeking can be found at
http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/mafeking/
This site is has been developed specifically to assist research into the Siege and Colin Walker welcomes contact from family historians and in particular from descendants of the besieged.

See Colin's articles in Family Tree Magazine July and August 2004 and, more recently, in Practical Family History Magazine September and October 2006, re 'Mafeking Medics: The Doctors and Nurses'.

His Mafeking Siege Register database now contains over 1800 names of those besieged in Mafeking together with their day by day activities. This information has been gleaned from all the published and many of the unpublished Siege diaries, medal rolls etc.

Colin would be pleased to freely respond to any enquiries from those seeking genealogical information on the basis that writers are prepared to share information on any of the besieged before and after their time in Mafeking.

"Personal contact with families always gives a greater depth to my knowledge as my records are for the Siege only and it is wonderful to find out when and where 'my subjects' were born and their family details. I am in personal contact now with as many as 30 families who had relatives in the Siege and some of them have produced wonderful information, e.g. the 'senior Mafeking Cadet' Warner Goodyear - who is depicted on Mafeking Stamps and about whom Baden-Powell wrote in his first yarn for Scouts in Scouting For Boys first issue in 1900. His relative sent me photographs of him in Cadet Uniform never previously seen. The Mafeking Medics article is the result of much personal correspondence."

Contact Colin via his website or at
scouting.milestones@btinternet.com

Lady Sarah Wilson, Winston Churchill's fearless aunt, from a cigarette card issued after the Relief of Mafeking

The Mafikeng Museum, with the Mafeking War Memorial in the foreground

'Long Tom', one of the powerful Boer siege guns, with a range of five miles, and group of Boers at Mafeking 1899

Siege of Mafeking Postcard

Daily Telegraph 19 May 1900
Mafeking Relieved plus picture of Mafeking Night in London

Col Plumer's attempt to Relieve Mafeking from the north
by Frank Dodd R.I.

Rosemary Dixon-Smith