Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 08.06.2005
9th Frontier War
(9th Kaffir War)
1877-79
  Causes
  Chronology
  Results
  Forces & Casualties
  Commanders
  Battles & Battle Honours 		  Order of  Battle
  Campaign Medals
  Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums & Memorials
  Bibliography  
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   Causes

     

   Chronology (except battles, which see below)
 
 
 
   Results

     

   Forces and Casualties
 
 
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
  subtotal
  TOTAL
                   
   Commanders
 
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   Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
 
Date Battles
(Battle Honours are shown in bold face) 		Regiments
(regiments awarded Battle Honours are shown in bold face)
Note: battle honours were awarded as noted below.
medal clasps were issued with year-dates: 1877, 1877-8 1877-8-9, 1877-9, 1878, 1878-9, 1879
9th Kaffir War
1877 Sep. 29 Ibeka
 
   
 
1877 Dec. 2
Umzintzani
awarded 1965
Inf: PAG
   
 
1877 Sep.  'Utaba-'Nadodo
 
   
 
1878 Feb. 6 Centane Mountain
  Inf:  1/F24
 
1878 Apr.
Ntaba Ndoda
Inf: FirstCity
 
 
Gunduza
 
   
 
1877 Sep. 26-
   1879 Dec. 2
Transkei 1877-78
awarded 1965
Inf: PAG
Transkei 1879
awarded 1965
Inf: CTR
1877 Sep. 26-
   1878 June 28
Gaika Gcaleka 1877
awarded 1965
Inf: CTR
Gaika Gcaleka 1877-78
awarded 1965
Cav: CMR DFH(Kimberley)
 Inf: PAG FirstCity
Gaika Gcaleka 1878
awarded 1965
Inf: Kaffrarian
Gcalekaland
Inf: GVHA
Gaikaland 1878
Inf: BuffaloVR
 
Operations Against the Griquas
1878 Pokwane expedition
 
 
1878-1879 Northern Border
Cav: DFH
Inf: 
 
1878 Jan. 21-
   1878 Nov. 13
Griqualand West
awarded 1965
Cav: GWC FAMP DFH(Kimberley)
Inf:  KimberleyLI
 

Morosi Rebellion

1879 Apr.-Nov.
Morosi
Inf: QRV
Moirosi's Mountain
Cav: CMR
 

Sekukuni Wars

1878 Nov.-
   1878		 Sekukuni (2nd war)
(aka: Secocoeni)
Inf:  2/F21
Cav: DFH
Inf: 
 
1879-
   1879 Nov.		 Sekukuni (3rd war)
(aka: Secocoeni)
Inf:  2/F21 F94
Inf: 
 
campaign honours were awarded to cover all operations in South Africa in 1877-79, including Zulu War South Africa 1877-8-9
Inf:  1/F24 2/F24 F88 F90
Cav: FAMP
South Africa 1878-9
Inf:  1/F13 F80
Inf: 
South Africa 1879
British award 1881, dates added 1882; South African award 1900
Cav:  DG1 L17 
Inf:  2/F3 2/F4 2/F21 F57 F58 3/F60 F91 F94 F99
Cav: NC NMR UMR BMR Inf:  DLI
   Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
   Medals Index of Campaign Medals
 
 
 
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