field cornet SAE

A second lieutenant was referred to as an assistant field cornet.

As such, a field cornet performed important functions in administrative, judicial and police matters.

The field cornet was subject to the landdrost of the district and acted as his representative.

Prinsloo was the unofficial field cornet of the district where at least 20 other families had settled by 1774.

At twenty he was a field cornet, an elected office which was something between magistrate and sheriff.

The term field cornet replaced the word adjutant in the commando organisation in 1968.

In the case of large wards, an Assistant Field Cornet could also be chosen.

In addition, in peacetime the field cornet was the head of the militia and was responsible for maintaining law and order in his area.

The town is named after Field Cornet Pieter de Villiers, a local farmer who founded the settlement in 1843.

The same year Kruger was elected a deputy field cornet-"a singular honour at seventeen", Meintjes comments.

The part of Uys' commando that remained behind (under the command of Field Cornet Potgieter), were surrounded and had to fight their way out.

The commando was commanded by a kommandant and each ward by a veldkornet or field cornet (equivalent of a senior NCO rank)

The town is named after Captain C.A. Schweizer and Field Cornet C.N. Reneke.

Meyerton was established in 1891 and was named after Johannes Petrus Meyer, a field cornet and member of the Transvaal Volksraad.

Field Cornet Andries Botha was an influential leader of the Khoi people of Kat River, Cape Colony.

Receiving no help from the Field Cornet of the ward, he proceeded to the nearest military post, commanded by Captain Andrews armed with a letter asked for military assistance.

The groups were led by Field Cornet Stephanus Roos, Commandant D.J.K. Malan and Commandant Joachim Ferreira.

Having been promoted to the rank of lieutenant (between field cornet and commandant), Kruger formed part of a commando sent against the chief Montshiwa in December 1852 to recover some stolen cattle.

Kruger was elected field cornet of his district in 1852, and in August that year he took part in the Battle of Dimawe, a raid against the Tswana chief Sechele I.

Field Cornet S. Eloff led a force of 240 Boers in an assault on the town of Mafeking, during the Siege of Mafeking which was part of the Second Boer War.

In September 1954 Piet's uncle, field cornet Hermanus Potgieter (Groot Hermaans), was searching for ivory near the Nyl River, an area ruled by chiefs Makapan and Mankopane (or 'Mapela'/'Mapele').

Tom Moodie was selected to attend a candidate officer's course which began in April, at the Military Services School, and was commissioned as an assistant field cornet (AFC) (2nd lieutenant) on his successful completion of that course.

The rank of Veld-Cornet (Field Cornet) was used for the senior officer of a ward or sub-district in the independent republican states of the Transvaal and Oranje-Vrystaat (Orange Free State) in late 19th century South Africa.

Early in 1825 he returned to Algoa Bay, making his way once more to the Baviaans River, where he stayed again on the Boschfontein farm belonging to Field Cornet Cornelius van der Nest, a farm which was also periodically visited by Clemenz Wehdemann.

De Wet served in the first Anglo-Boer War of 1880-81 as a Field Cornet, taking part in the Battle of Majuba Mountain, in which the Boers achieved a victory over the British forces under Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley.