Deadwood Camp Gedenksboek
Collection of envelopes from letters - expanded Page 1
Envelopes no 1
Prisoners of War
Surname CORNELISSEN
Name CORNELIS
Age 21
Address BOTHAVILLE
District KROONSTAD
Where Captured PAARDEBERG
When Captured 1900/02/27
Camp BROADBOTTOM
Country ST. HELENA
Ship (To) BAVARIAN
Ship (Back)
POW Number 5290
Prisoners of War
Surname CORNELISSEN
Name JACOBUS JOHANNES
Age 38
Address VERVIEL
District BLOEMFONTEIN
Where Captured PAARDEBERG
When Captured 1900/02/27
Camp BROADBOTTOM
Country ST. HELENA
Ship (To) BAVARIAN
Ship (Back)
POW Number 5291
Envelopes no 2
Surname FAGERSKOLD
Name HELGE ALEX
Age 29
Address P O BOX 383, PRETORIA
District
Where Captured MAGERSFONTEIN
When Captured 1899/12/11
Camp DEADWOOD
Country St. Helena
Ship (To) Onbekend
Ship (Back)
POW Number 3506
Envelopes no 3
Surname NIELSEN
Name JENS
Age 40
Address BOX 292, PRETORIA
District
Where Captured PAARDEBERG
When Captured 1900/02/27
Ship (To) Onbekend
Ship (Back)
POW Number 4038
Envelopes no 4
Prisoners of War
Surname BORMUDA
Name CHARLES
Age 35
Address JOHANNESBURG
District JOHANNESBURG
Where Captured BOTHASVILLE
When Captured 1900/12/15
Camp Onbekend
Country St. Helena
Ship (To) Onbekend
Ship (Back)
POW Number 15703
Envelopes no 5
Prisoners of War
Surname KEIZER
Name G R
Age 0
Address HOLLAND
District
Where Captured PAARDEBERG
When Captured 1900/02/27
Camp DEADWOOD
Country St. Helena
Ship (To) Onbekend
Ship (Back)
POW Number 3503
Envelopes no 6
Letter returned to St Helena and put in Scrapbook
Envelopes no 7
Letter returned to St Helena and put in Scrapbook
Envelopes no 8
Letter returned to St Helena and put in Scrapbook
(Ed note - From Wilf Vevers - This has a boxed St. Helena tax marking, was censored by J.H.M.Brown and was carried by the Union Castle vessel Raglan Castle that sailed for the Cape on 22/08/1900. Brown transferred in 1901 to become one of the censors in Bermuda.)
Envelopes no 9
Prisoners of War - sender
Surname DELPORT
Name GIDEON LOUWRENS
Age 31
Address KLERKSDORP
District
Where Captured PAARDEBERG
When Captured 1900/02/27
Camp DEADWOOD
Country ST. HELENA
Ship (To) MILWAUKEE
Ship (Back)
POW Number 3715
Envelopes no 10
(Ed note - From Wilf Vevers - This envelope was censored by E.B.Walton and would have been in the mail taken to the Cape by the transport Basuto which sailed from St Helena on 16/09/1900.)
Envelopes no 11
(Ed note - From Wilf Vevers - This was censored by F.W.Alexander, the chief censor at the time. It has an impression of the St. Helena returned letter marking and would have been taken to the Cape by the Raglan Castle when she sailed from St. Helena on 12/12/1900)
Information of prisoners details courtesy of the Anglo-Boer War Museum Bloemfontein
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