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Quote A group of Bittereinder brothers-in-arms pose together (vir oulaas...) after their arms were handed in as stipulated in the peace treaty.

 

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Commandant CA van Niekerk

Photo 1: Studio photo, Mauser C96 hanging on his side
Photo 2: Handing in their weapons after peace, June 1902, Kroonstad commando at Vredefortweg. Van Niekerk seated on the right.
Photo 3: Wedding after the war

Although he was one of six voting against the peace proposal at Vereeniging, this Boshof teacher was a true grit Bittereinder leader who continued to serve his people immediately after the war as member of the compensation committee for farmer pay-outs and later as parliamentarian and received two honorary degrees from universities of Stellenbosch and -Bloemfontein.

 

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Lord Kitchener with some of his staff at Melrose house, Pretoria.

The person seated on the left, capt Frank Maxwell, was Kitchener's aide-de-camp, and nicknamed "The Brat". Both Kitchener and Maxwell were killed in WW1.

 

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Melrose House, Jacob Maré str, Pretoria
This was Lord Kitchener's residence and the HQ of the British Army in South Africa. The Peace Treaty was signed here on 31 May 1902 by Kitchener, Milner and representatives of the ZAR and OVS

 

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Quote Boer peace conference at Vereeniging, May 1902

ZAR government delegates:

From left:
British officer
Gen Louis Botha, commander of Transvaal forces
Gen Schalk Burger, acting President of Transvaal
JC Krogh
DE van Velden. state secretary

 

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Boer prisoners playing tennis at Darrell's POW camp, Bermuda.

Quote Boer prisoners made this billiard table at Darrel's Island POW Camp, Bermuda.

Quote Four rebel prisoners with guards, Bermuda.

Note the fixed bayonets on all the rifles.

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Cape Rebel prisoners at Hawkins Island, Bermuda.

The photo caption mention these men to be from Stellaland.

Note the prison wear with the broad arrow marked on all clothing.

Cape rebels were seen as criminals and thus deprived of POW status privileges.

Deep respect for the Cape rebels who supported their brothers in the Republics knowing that if they were captured they would face the death penalty for high treason. Most rebels that were caught received life prison sentences in Bermuda, but were released shortly after the war. About 44 Cape rebels were actually executed for high treason and other charges.

 

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Lt van der Venter, Morgan's Island POW camp, Bermuda

With him is Piet Cronje, 9 years old, the youngest prisoner in the Morgan's camp. (Dankie Frik Brits vir die info). van der Venter was supposedly the Boer leader in the camp.

Love this photo especially the barefooted Piet with a solid posture wearing his trouser suspenders and field hat, just like the adults.

Do you see the 2 "ghosts" in the tree? I think it is a case of partial double exposure

 

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Colin, NICE JOB, love these pics mate!! Where'd you get them?? Little talked about events shown here now, which lead to the formations of two countries: So. Africa & Rhodesia

 

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29th October 1900: Soldiers of the City Imperial Volunteers Regiment parade from Paddington Station to a Thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral as they return from combat in South Africa during the Boer War, London.

 

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Peace day at Harrismith

 

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The de la Rey family, post war.

General Koos de la Rey and his wife, Nonnie, with their children. The person on the right could be a son-in-law.

Gen de la Rey was in my opinion the most remarkable Boer general while Nonnie herself was a special and strong woman as she refused to be taken to a concentration camp and evaded the British for the last 18 months of the war by trekking and surviving with her kids with a wagon in the veld.

 

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Gen Schalk Burger addressing inmates at the Howick concentration camp in June 1902, just after peace.

 

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Men of Commandant Gideon Scheepers' Commando

Not the best quality but a rare image of Scheeper's scouts.

Note the white bands on the hats. I have read in Pieter Cloete's stunning book that Scheepers' men were known as "Witkoppen"

 

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Dr. Martini and medical staff at the Brandfort concentration camp.

Note the canary cage

 

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Wow, Great Pics Colin Thanks for Sharing!!

 

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Returning home from war, sergeant Scales, corporal Brown and private Penson of the Essex volunteer regiment.

They are proudly wearing their war service medal ribbons.

 

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Post war: starting over

The burnt farm of CJ Stuart from the Smithfield district.

 

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The Glorious Trio

Bittereinder gen's De Wet, De la Rey and Botha visited Europe just after the war in 1902 to raise funds for suffering Boer women and children, widows and orphans and other destitute persons. This photo was taken in Cape Town before their departure.

 

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1929; The remains of fallen Burghers taken for reburial after been exhumed from the Talana battlefield.

 

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Aussie Boer War veterans at an ANZAC Day function.