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Anglo Boere Oorlog/Boer War (1899-1902) POW India

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Badenhorst, Barnard, Bierman, Botha and 16 others
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    Frederik Johannes Philippus Rudolf Botha (1878 - d.)
    ===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel Database ID: 16580 POW Number: 17498 Surname: Botha Name: FREDERICK JOHANNES PHILIPPUS Age: 23 Address: BRAKLAAGTE District: VREDE Where Captured: ROBE...
  • Frederik Johannes Botha, b4c9d1e8f2g7 (1883 - d.)
    ===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel Database ID: 21688 POW Number: 22606 Surname: Botha Name: FREDERICK JOHANNES Age: 18 Address: DRIEFONTEIN District: ZOUTPANSBERG Where Captured: PIETER...
  • Frederik Jacobus Botha, b2c4d5e2f4g4h8 (1871 - 1959)
    ===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel Database ID: 17570 POW Number: 18488 Surname: Botha Name: FREDERICK JACOBUS Age: 29 Address: RIETFONTEIN District: MIDDELBURG Where Captured: GEWEND Wh...
  • Frederik Botha (1876 - d.)
    ===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel Database ID: 17564 POW Number: 18482 Surname: Botha Name: FREDERICK Age: 24 Address: RIETFONTEIN District: RUSTENBURG Where Captured: MAGALIESBERG When...
  • Dirk Johannes Botha (1874 - 1963)
    ===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel Database ID: 27809 POW Number: 28734 Surname: Botha Name: DIRK JOHANNES Age: 28 Address: CANADA District: KROONSTAD Where Captured: SCHAAPKRAAL When Ca...

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INDIA

More than 9,000 POW were held in the following camps:

Camps and Cemeteries

  • Ahmednagar: Cemetery – Fort Ahmednagar Cemetery
  • Amritsar Camp for "irreconcilables"
  • Abbottabad
  • Bellary: Cemetery – Bellary Miltary Cemetery

A camp for 821 prisoners was in operation at Bellary, in Madras Command, between May 1901 and August 1902. The men were accommodated in barracks, and tents with thatched roofs, surrounded by barbed wire entanglements. During the 15 months of the camp's life three prisoners broke parole and were subsequently recaptured, and another was shot one night trying to escape from the hospital. Although conditions within the camp were described as generally good, the health of the prisoners was indifferent, despite having the use of a 50 bed hospital at the station: during 1902 smallpox accounted for two deaths and the hospitalization of six men.

  • Bhim Tal
  • Bombaai: Cemetery – Sewri Cemetery
  • Daghshai
  • Fort Govindagh
  • Gwalior: Cemetery – Gwalior Cemetry
  • Jhansi: Cemetery – Jhansi Cemetery
  • Kaity-Nilgiris
  • Kakool: Cemetery – Kakool Cemetery
  • Kala Khan: Cemetery – Kala Khan Cemetery
  • Kasauli: Cemetery – Kasauli Cemetery
  • Khandema: Cemetery – Khandema Cemetery
  • Madras: Cemeteries – Fort St George Cemetery, Keti-Basel Commisionary Cemetrey, Ootacamund Cemetery, Wellington State Cemetery, Weslyan Cemetery
  • Nainital: Cemetery – Nainital Cemetery
  • Satara
  • Shahjahanpur: Cemetery – Shahjahananpur Cemetery
  • Sialkot: Cemetery – Sialkot Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Solon: Cemetery – Solon Cemetery
  • Trichinopoly: Cemetery – Weslyan Cemetery
  • Umballa. approx 1300 POWs: Cemetery – Umballa Cemetery

Shipping

  • Bombay, April 23 1901. The Hawarden Castle, with a number of Boer prisoners arrived.
  • Madras, June 3 1901. A Transport (No name given) with 500 Boer prisoners arrived here today. The prisoners were despatched to Trichinopoly in the evening by rail.
  • Bombay, March 1902, 300 POWs, arrived on board the ship Tempelmore

Escapes

There were several successful escapes. Two Boers escaped from Bellary Camp but escape was generally difficult as the Boers could not 'blend in'. At Trichinopoly, J. L. de Villiers overcame this problem by disguising himself as an Indian. He was able to walk through the gates, past the guards and caught a train to Pondicherry the first station in French territory in India. and returned to South Africa via France and the Netherlands.

The POWs

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  • Commandant T. F. J. Dreyer, commandant of the Potchefstroom Commando

  • Diederik Martinus de Beer. Age 33. Ahmednagar India on board the Hawarden Castle



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  • Commandant J. L. P. Erasmus Shahjehanpur, Feb 1902, he was transferred with a dozen "irreconcilables" to Amritsar and detained in Fort Gobindgarh. He made a study of Hindu philosophy and delivered a series of six lectures on "India: its religions and social history"

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  • Nicolaas Heldzingen Lindenberg 1870 to 1958. POW in Indie, Ballary Camp. (Nico H Lindenberg No 194, Sect. 2; Boer Camp, Bellary. Became a teacher and eventually a school principal in Cape Town.)

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  • Jacobus Joshua Francois (Koos) Maartens, 30886, Ship Tempelmore, Umbala Camp, Ship Pahtang.
  • Jacobus Cornelius Maartens, 30887, Ship Tempelmore, Umbala Camp, Ship Pahtang.




  • Edward MeyersHawarden Castle, Ahmednagar Camp, Amritsar where he married Mabel Lilian Lincoln

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  • Alexander Nikolaievich Shulzhenko A Russian

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Deaths

Those who died on the ships on the way to India where buried at sea.

Inscriptions on gravestone at Umbala cemetery,

  • H.J. van Asewgan Fauresmith 16.6.02
  • L.P. Boshoff Lindley 22.5.02
  • P.C. Celliers Heilbron 23.12.01
  • F.J. Cronje Pcstroom 21.5.02
  • E. Edmund
  • E.W. von Jager Bethlehem 30.6..02
  • E.E. von Malitz Winburg 16.4.02
  • J.F. Martin 11.11.02
  • G.J. v.d Merwe Kroonstad 3.7.01
  • H.J.S. v.d Merwe Fauresmith 15.6.02
  • R.J. j.v. Vuuren Middleburg 17.10.01
  • R.E. v.d. Merwe Fauresmith 11.11.01
  • P.W.J. Nel Kroonstad 4.11.01
  • A.J. Pienaar Bethvlie 16.11.01
  • P.I.M. du Plessis Kroonstad 21.11.01
  • J.J.Raath Parijs 31.10.01
  • W.N. van Rensburg Philippolis 16.1.02
  • B.J.M. Vorster Fauresmith 26.10.02
  • Jansen 17.10.01
  • B.J.L. van der Walt Wolmaranstad 15.12.01

Names on a monument erected by Indian government at Shahjahanpur (see photo section)

  • JH Combrinck, van distr. Carolina, overleden 10-10-1902
  • PW Erasmus, Winburg, 31-05-'02
  • WJ Grobler, Zoutpansberg, 07-07-'02
  • CC Harmse, Rustenburg, 03-01-'02
  • CG Jacobs, Boshoff, 05-10-'02
  • JP de Jager, Bethlehem, 25-04-'02
  • B Jonker, Rustenburg, 01-11-'01
  • NF du Plessis, Potchefstroom, 21-08-'02
  • A du Plessis, Fauresmith, 13-10-'02
  • DJJ van Rensburg, Rouxville, 20-05-'02
  • HH Sauerman, Harrismith, 05-05-'02
  • HA Smit, Harrismith, 30-11-'02
  • PA Swanepoel, Rustenburg, 18-11-'02
  • AP van Wijk, Smithfield, 14-08-'02

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