Sunday 22nd May 2016 was a typical KZN Provincial MOTH meeting being held at the Assagai Shellhole in Wentworth on the Bluff. The Mainline District had a pretty good attendance […]

Great was the respect and the joy by MOTH Crater Shellhole members when World War II Veteran Me. Esmé Taylor, turning 103 in May, was initiated as a returning Moth, […]

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Yvonne Rich, the Lady Billie presented to MOTH Michael Pothas, a MOTH of Long Ditance Snipers, – This award – For your dedicated service to ‘Moore’ Road Mothwa Haven, and […]

My new book “Tales and Poems of the Rhodesian Bush War circa1967 – 1979” is now available to MOTH members at a discounted price of R220.00 each (up to R350.00 […]

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Fellow Moths and Shellhole Friends To the memory of and in proud thanksgiving of our 57 founding members, to all those committed Moths and Friends who served at our Shellhole […]

My Moth friend called me up to ask if we could RAID Byng Boys Shellhole that meet at Bartle Road Moth cottages, and that they meet on the last Tuesday […]

Today 51 Years ago, 01st April 1961, the Founder of our Great Order, Moth Charles Evenden (Moth O), answered the Sunset Call. Let Us Remember Him. General Jannie Smuts made […]

Denzil Gravett is a long-serving member of Buffalo-Dixie Shellhole in East London.

Better ‘Ole Shellhole had their usual monthly meeting, Sat 12th March and we had a very good turn out with 36 members on parade (membership is 54 – 66,7%) with […]

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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