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About Gert van der Merwe

  • Age 65 years 6 months and 15 days on Death Notice
  • Possible mistake as his mother who died a year and 6 months later is aged 76 on her death notice. 8 years old at the time of his birth?

Note: His age on the DN should have been 56 years - In 1836 his father was only 12 years old and not married yet.



===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel

Database ID: 19096
POW Number: 20013
Surname: VAN DER MERWE
Name: GERT
Age: 55
Address: MOOIHOEK
District: HEILBRON
Where Captured: HEILBRON DIST.
When Captured: 1901-05-02
Camp: Onbekend
Country: Onbekend
Ship (to): Onbekend
Ship (from): N/A



===Burger Deaths ABO=== Added by AR Swanepoel

Database ID: 3247
Surname: VAN DER MERWE
First Name: Gert
Age: 65
Address: N/A
Commando: N/A
Battle: Makopo, Thbanchu
Date: 27/01/1902
Buried: N/A


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Gert van der Merwe's Timeline

1870
March 22, 1870
Rouxville, Xhariep, FS, South Africa
1874
May 15, 1874
Rouxville, Xhariep, Free State, South Africa
June 7, 1874
Rouxville, Xhariep, FS, South Africa
1875
January 19, 1875
Rouxville, Xhariep, Free State, South Africa
1878
July 22, 1878
Rouxville, Xhariep, FS, South Africa
1884
July 7, 1884
1886
March 1, 1886
Thaba Nchu, Motheo, FS, South Africa
1902
January 27, 1902
Age 27
Battle of Makopo, Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State, South Africa