2016 Moth National Bowls will be in will be hosted in Newcastle buy MONTE STANCO Shellhole in October 2016. See entry form under Dates to remember. More details to follow […]

Fellow Moths and Shellhole Friends Sometime during March 1946, Moth Malcolm Bouwer was inducted into our beloved Order. Unfortunately too weak to attend Shellhole functions in person anymore; we are […]

At my last visit (23 Jan) to Douggie Smith at his home in the Lake View Retirement village in Scottburgh about 75km south of Durban. I had made up my […]

The KZN Provincial meeting for the month of February was held at the Windsor/M’tambu Shellhole in Darnell, which is about 150km up north into Zululand. This is a Shellhole that […]

I had been in touch with the Durban & District Old Bill, Geoff Atkins , when we travelled together with Jurek Krakewski (The KZN Prov Adj) where Geoff said that […]

Better ‘Ole decides to Raid Journey’s End Shellhole which is in Durban North. Wednesday 17th Feb. The last time that we did this was 16th Sept last year. So our […]

From Journey’s End Shellhole meeting on Wednesday 17th Feb, Old Bill Wayne Tarr needed a work party to paint the outer walls of their ‘Log Cabin Shellhole’ to start at […]

The Better O’le meeting on the 2nd Saturday in February is always a bad day for me as the next day (Sunday is the Midmar Mile swim and I enter […]

The Mainline District Dugout meets throughout the year at different Shellholes. To start this year 2016, the first meeting was held at Winston Churchill, which is in Westville (Durban). At […]

The first of the KZN Provincial meetings to be held in 2016, was held at the Victory Shellhole which is located in the suburb of Malvern, about 20km west of […]

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On Sunday 17 January, the Lowveld District Dugout held their first meeting of the year. It was also the first meeting under the new District Old Bill, John Calmeyer (of […]

After the Mainline District meeting which was held at Winston Churchill on Sat 16th Jan 2016. Some members from Better ‘Ole Shellhole had decided toattend the Mainline meeting and then […]

Better ‘Ole Shellhole decided to make a raid on Winston Churchill on Thursday evening 14th January 2016 and they meet 19,00 for 19,30 and this is got to be the […]

I am going through the Home Front Magazines looking for information/ History on Better ‘Ole Shellhoe and it’s formation. I came across this article of the MacDermid Family in the […]

Fellow MOTH I am looking for some HELP, Peter Shattock of Better ‘Ole Shellhole, alias the “War Correspondent” We at Better ‘Ole are desperately trying to find out if anyone […]

I had not seen Doug Smith since the Hard Tack Shellhole Christmas lunch Sat 19th Dec 2015 Yes it’s hell getting old, and one thing for sure, as in Doug’s […]

SADF 2.4 km: Great turnout in East London. Best time just over 10 minutes. Last in 1 hour 18 minutes 43 seconds. That pair denies having leopard crawled the whole […]

I wanted to go and visit my ‘Mature’ MOTH Friend Doug Smith this last Saturday 19th December and he informed me that he was going to go to the HARD […]

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MOTH PASSCHENDAELE/SOMME handed in their charter on the 21st November 2015, at the Moth Southern Gauteng District meeting. The 2 shellholes, PASSCHENDAELE & SOMME were both initially chartered in 1927. […]

Again this year, MOTH Shellhole bowlers lined up to fill the 7 rinks at Witbank Golf Bowls Club in the name of charity. They came from Johannesburg, Pretoria Ermelo and […]

During his opening address, Moth Chris Sonnekus, Coalfields District Old Bill proudly announced that the Poppy day collections, the number of Veterans who took part in the Remembrance Parade (42 […]

East London District gave enthusiastic support to the SADF 2.4 km group.(click here for attachment). Considering that the ex-serviceman (Ian Van) who started it is in Australia and ‘ou manne’ […]

On the 23rd of November 1975, Niel Lombard, a son of the Riebeek Valley was killed in action on the banks of the Massaba river in Angola, during Operation Savanna. […]

The MOTH Cape Western Provincial Dugout, the Department of Military Veterans, and the Cape Town Highlanders again hosted a successful Memorial Parade and Service to commemorate the aforesaid. Honoured by […]

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Facebook 90th Advert – Maureen Joubert has really pulled out all stops to try and RAISE funds towards the Moth 90th Anniversary. Maureen placed this ad on Facebook for about […]