Soldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… a 'white man's war', 83 000 Africans and 2 000 Coloured men did serve in a non-combatant capacity.(3) While the Cape … in France, but the third, the SS Mendi, with over 600 men, was sunk off the Isle of Wight on 21 February 1917 as a … that at the end of the recruitment period, 80 479 African men had been recruited into the Native Military Corps.(10) …