Pieter Benjamin Bresler

NG Kerk, Vrede, Orange Free State - Baptismal Register Entry :66 of 30 September 1885 - Pieter Benjamin Bresler - Birth : 18 September 1885 at ' Koppies ' Vrede District - Baptised : 30 September 1885 Parents : Mathys Johannes Bresler / Maria Aletta Johanna Schutte - Presiding Minister : Ds J. H. Enslin in the presence of the following witnesses : Pieter Benjamin Bresler / Johanna Aletta Christina Petronella Koen

( Anglo Boer War History : Captured at Frederickstad on 25 October 1900 Prisoner No : 15 726 Aged 18 years and from the Farm ' Bavaria ' Vrede District of the Orange Free State. Banished to the Island of St Helena ( According to the Anglo Boer War Museum records at Bloemfontein states ' From the neighbouring farm ' Waterval ' Vrede District. Last served under Kommandant Alex Ross and General M. Botha - June 1902 Eastern Suburbs Ref : 6011 ? ) - His ordinary place of residence was 5 Kerria Road, Primrose, Germiston. Pieter was on a Miners's Phthysis pension at the time of his death. Left Movable Property No Will Death Certificate - Signed by J.van Rensburg - Son in law - Present at Death and saw body after death 19 March 1952 Germiston )