South African Military History Society

Rand Revolt graves in Primrose Cemetery


Photo: Derek Walker

Location
Germiston, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Primrose Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Primrose
GPS: 26 deg 11 min 44.78 sec S, 28 deg 8 min 45.83 sec E

Significance
Government Forces were deployed to suppress the violent labour unrest on the East Rand known as the Rand Revolt, also known as the Rand Rebellion, Rand Revolution or the 1922 Miners' Strike.
Fatalities included Government Forces, strikers and civilians.


Lance Sergeant Paulus Petrus Joubert, South African Police 11 March 1922
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Private George Brown, Transvaal Scottish 10 March 1922
Private Albert Vernon Higham, Transvaal Scottish 10 March 1922
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Private Tjaart Johannes Van Der Walt, South African Railways and Harbours 12 March 1922
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Harry Ernest Bruce Webb-Stock, 8 March 1922
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Sidney George Beal, 14 March 1922 (buried in Benoni, commemorated on his parents' headstone)
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Sergeant James Tanner, South African Railways and Harbours 10 March 1922

References
The Rand Revolt and Constable FJHD van Wyk by Andrew van Wyk
The 1922 Rand Revolution by Rodney Warwick.

Memorials in the vicinity
ABW Memorial (Baakenlaagte, Bethal, Boksburg, Boschmanskop, Devon, Leslie, Nooitgedacht, Oshoek and Springs)
Kings Royal Rifles Mounted Infantry Bakenlaagte Memorial
84 Battery Royal Field Artillery Memorial
Queen's Bays Leeuwkop 1 April 1902 Memorial
Scottish Horse Bakenlaagte 30 Oct 1901 Memorials
Primrose Township Great War Memorial 2nd Bn, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Bakenlaagte Memorial
Knights Deep War Memorial

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