Battle of Rooiwal

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Battle of Rooiwal
Part of Second Boer War
Date 11 April 1902 Location Rooiwal, South African Republic 25°33′6″S 28°12′11″E / 25.55167°S 28.20306°E / -25.55167; 28.20306 Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom	South African Republic
Commanders and leaders
Robert Kekewich Ian Hamilton Henry Rawlinson	Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter † Jan Kemp
Strength
3,000	1,700[1]
Casualties and losses
c. 70 killed and wounded	230, of whom: 50 dead, 130 wounded, 50 men, 3 field guns and a pom pom captured[2]

The Battle of Rooiwal was an engagement of the Second Boer War. It took place on 11 April 1902 and resulted in a victory by a British force commanded by Colonel Robert Kekewich over a Boer commando led by Generals Ferdinandus Jacobus Potgieter and Jan Kemp.

The action consisted of a Boer attack on horseback on an entrenched British hillside position in the valley of Rooiwal, near Klerksdorp in the Western Transvaal. The Boers were attempting to break out of a British encircling manoeuvre. Their attack was repulsed at some cost to the Boers in killed and injured.

This was the end of the war in the Western Transvaal and also the last major battle of the Anglo-Boer War.