Dutch Prison Camps.

Submitted by atom on Sun, 13/09/2020 - 16:57
Identity
Identifier: 
ZA SMM001 #_#_C264_#
Start Date: 
0000
End Date: 
0
Level of Description: 
Item
Extent and medium: 
Correspondence File
Context
Repository: 
South African National Museum of Military History
Name of Creators: 
Departement van Vervoer. Personeelafdeling (1926 - 1964)
Register: 
National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
Description
Archivist's notes: 

-- Letter setting out classification of prisoners of war in Bermuda.
-- Booklet containing map of the Bermudas.
-- Letters and envelopes written to prisoners of war in Bermuda.
-- Regulations for the discipline of the Boer prisoners of war in Bermuda.
-- Card sent by prisoner of war in Ceylon.
-- Pass: Camp Umballa.
-- Photographs of St. Helena.
-- Declaration of allegiance to the Crown signed by WH Dixon on St. Helena.
-- Illustrated booklet - Souvenir of St. Helena.
-- Handwritten scriptbook with songs, poems and letters, kept by JJ Pienaar, prisoner of war in the Diyatalawa Camp, 1901.
-- Article from The Star, 28.2.1980 re prisoner of war graves in Ceylon.
-- Article from The Star, 14.4.1980 re Louis Sauer prisoner of war at Diyatalawa Camp.
-- Article re 600 Boer prisoners of war buried in foreign countries.
-- Articles from Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, 1946, 1947, by RL Brohier re the Boer prisoners of war in Ceylon.
-- Diary - 4 days written by MA Bothma in the Aliwal North Camp, 1901.
-- Article from SA Digest, 3.12.1982 re Henry Engelbrecht, prisoner of war at Ceylon.
-- List of camps in St. Helena, Ceylon, Portugal, India, Bermuda.
-- Correspondence.

Administration
Type of Archive: 
Manuscript