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About Kmdt. Robert Clunie Logie Preller

This from http://www.preller.za.cx/index.htm must contact this guy to see if I could add the whole site

Die Prellers se stamvader in Suid-Afrika, Johann Friedrich Preller, het in 1786 as soldaat in die Kaap aangekom vanaf Halle an der Saale, Duitsland. Hy trou in 1794 met Zacharia Christina de Beer en sewe kinders word uit die huwelik gebore.

Gustav Schoeman Preller was die seun van kommandant Robert Clunie Logie Preller ('n kleinkind van Johann Friedrich) en Stephanie Maria Aletta Schoeman, en is op 4 Oktober 1875 op die plaas Klein Schoemansdal, Klipdrif, Pretoria gebore. Die plaas was destyds die eiendom van sy grootvader aan moederskant, generaal Stefanus Schoeman, en vorm tans deel van die stad Pretoria, ten noorde van Boomstraat tot aan die Apiesrivier.

Gustav het slegs nagenoeg drie jaar skoolopleiding geniet en aanvanklik as winkelassistent op Standerton gewerk. Sy gesin het later Pretoria toe getrek waar Gustav agtereenvolgens as winkelassistent, prokureursklerk en klerk in die Departement van Mynwese werksaam was. Sy vrye tyd het hy meestal aan studie gewy. Wat hy tot stand gebring het was die vrug van selfvorming en -ontwikkeling.

Gustav trou met Johanna Pretorius, 'n afstammeling van beide generaal Andries Pretorius, held van Bloedrivier, en die Voortrekkerleier, Piet Retief. Die egpaar het drie seuns gehad, naamlik Carl, Robert en Gustav.

Op aanbeveling van dr J.A. Wiid ken die Universiteit van Stellenbosch op 3 Desember 1930 'n ere-doktorsgraad in Lettere en Wysbegeerte aan Preller toe.

Gustav Preller is op 7 Oktober 1943 (enkele dae na sy 68ste verjaarsdag) oorlede. Sy stoflike oorskot is op tradisionele wyse per waentjie na die familie-begraafplaas te Pelindaba vervoer en weggelê saam met dié van Marthinus Wessel Pretorius en die Voortrekkervrou, Deborah Retief.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/1266/historical-Boerwaratren...

The Preller family moved to the Transvaal in 1861, and in 1865 to the Free State. He fought in the Basuto war 1865 and 1868 at Naauwpoort, Thaba Bosigo and Korannaberg. With the war against Sekhukhne he was an assistant veldkornet, with the war against Mapocho he was only a burgher. He served from 1893 - 1895 as a member of the Soutpansberg occupation commission. In 1899 he was commandant over some Johannesburg and Pretoria burghers fighting in the southern Free State. He was wounded 7 Sep 1901 in the Colesberg area, where he fought the enemy with General Hendrik Schoeman and taken as POW to Shajahanpur, India. He was from the farm Klipdrif in the Pretoria district and was married to Stephina Schoeman, a daughter of commandant-general Stephanus Schoeman. Their son, Gustav Schoeman Preller (*Pretoria 4 Oct 1875 - Pelindaba, district Pretoria, 6 Oct 1943) became a well known journalist, a campaigner for the Afrikaans language, and a keen historian. Commandant Preller died in 1916.

W. J. de Kock (editor), Suid-Afrikaanse Biografiese woordeboek, Deel 1, p.673;

Jacques Malan, Die Boere-offisiere van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog 1899 - 1902, p. 116;

J.H. Breytenbach, Die geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog in Suid-Afrika, 1899 -1902, I, p. 193;

Die geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog in Suid-Afrika, 1899 -1902, IV, pp. 10, 23, 441, 449.

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Kmdt. Robert Clunie Logie Preller's Timeline

1846
May 5, 1846
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
1875
October 4, 1875
Pretoria, Klein Schoemansdal, Klipdrif, Transvaal, South Africa
1875
1877
January 4, 1877
Pretoria
January 4, 1877
Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
1877
1890
November 1890
Pretoria, GP, South Africa
1898
May 18, 1898
1910
1910