South African National Museum of Military History
The South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War. In 1975, the museum was renamed from the South African National War Museum and its function changed to include all conflicts that South Africa has been involved in. In 1999 it was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based Transvaal Museum and National Cultural History Museum to form the Northern Flagship Institution. In April 2010 Ditsong was officially renamed Ditsong Museums of South Africa and the SANMMH was renamed the Ditsong National Museum of Military History.
South African National Museum of Military History
The Anglo-Boer War Memorial
A modified South African Centurion Tank
A captured Cold War era T-54/55 tank
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served as Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation and the only British prince to do so.
Photograph by Alexander Bassano, c. 1885
A painting of Queen Victoria with Prince Arthur by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Prince Arthur (sitting on the right) with his younger brother, Prince Leopold, c. 1866
Prince Arthur met with the Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Grand River at the Mohawk Chapel in 1869.