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About Hendrik Petrus Geldenhuys, b6c1d10e4f5g2
His story is described on page 171-180 of Prisoners of the Boer War in Ceylon and the Dutch East Indies by RL Brohier, revised and reprinted by D Brohier and RA Woodruff, First Edition 2015; Neptune Publications, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka.
All of his sons went to war, and all of them survived. One of his daughters Johanna Catharina, and her two young sons died in the British Concentration Camp in Standerton during the war.
His wife died in the British Concentration Camp in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 10 September 1901 (see here).
Despite not taking part in the war, he was taken as a P.O.W. by the British because he owned a rifle, and shipped to the P.O.W. Camp in Diyatalawa, Ceylon. After the war (1902) he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown and was therefore not allowed to return home, but was restricted to the eastern part of the island of Ceylon for the remainder of his life. He carved a miniature gravestone for his wife while he was in Ceylon.
He died on 21 May 1904 in Batticaloa, Ceylon.
More information about him is available at:
http://www.geldenhuys.org.uk/Infopage_GELDENHUYS_g1.htm
===Prisoners of War===
Surname GELDENHUYS
Name HENDRIK PETRUS
Age 62
Address HARTEBEESTFONTEIN
District VREDE
Where Captured BOSCHFONTEIN
When Captured 1900/09/03
Camp Onbekend
Country CEYLON
Ship (To) RANEE II
Ship (Back)
POW Number 13783
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Hendrik Petrus Geldenhuys, b6c1d10e4f5g2's Timeline
| 1838 |
June 20, 1838
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Melkbosch, Swellendam, Cape Colonly, South Africa
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| 1861 |
1861
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Swellendam, Cape Province, South Africa
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| 1863 |
January 5, 1863
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Swellendam, Cape
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1866
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March 25, 1868
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| 1873 |
March 14, 1873
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Vrede, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
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| 1878 |
October 17, 1878
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Vrede, Thabo Mofutsanyane, Free State, South Africa
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| 1880 |
June 19, 1880
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| 1882 |
May 1882
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Hartebeestfontein, Vrede, South Africa
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