Nylstroom concentration camp cemetery - 544 died, mostly children

It was 150 years ago a woman was born in St Ive who's been compared to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale. Learn more about Emily Hobhouse.

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Occasion, on 21st October 1899, of the devastating charge by the 5th Lancers.

Camp Matron Grinding Cord

Internment - Wikipedia She became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), a position she held from 1897 until 1919. In July 1901 she was appointed to lead the British government's commission to South Africa investigating conditions in the concentration camps that had been created there in the wake of the Second Boer War. Her report corroborated what the campaigner Emily Hobhouse had said about the terrible conditions in the camps.

Lewe in 'n kamp

Boer Children With African Woman

Issuing Meat Rations. Springfontein Camp.

Distribution of wood rations, Brandfort Refugee Camp.

Hospital Staff Springfontein Camp.

General View of Springfontein Camp.

Op pad na die Britse konsentrasiekampe - Anglo Boere oorlog - Suid Afrika - vrouens & kinders word gereed gemaak vir hulle treinrit.

Brandfort Refugee Camp.

Posts about Boer war images written by Nikita

Water Supply - Norvals Pont Refugee Camp.