Rysmierbult (E 9)

Name: Rysmierbult

It's really interesting, because when I was still in school, back in South Africa, we never learned about the Boer Wars.

I am in the unique position of looking at great grand parents and having them on all sides of the Anglo Boer war

1. One great great grandfather executed by British in 1901 for spying on British military convoys for Boere. He would be what some would refer to as a Kaapse rebel... in some circles in whitedom he would be seen as "not a true boer" but a Kaapse Afrikaner.

2. Another great great grandfather was a Cornishman who came here with the British in 1900 and fought it out till the end for the British. In case you do not know the Cornish are one of the seven Celtic nations. George came here to find adventure and a living outside of the horror or pre socialist industrialising Britian. He stayed after the war and ended up working in the mines in any case...

3. His eventual wife was a farm girl originally from a farm near Louis Trichardt (Now Machado). She lost everything. Her parents, brothers, farm everything. Came out of a concentration camp in 1902 and married a khaki... because she was hungry and alone and desperate.

4. Other great great grandparents were POW's in Sri Lanka

5. Others had their farms in Western Transvaal (Rysmierbult) burnt to the ground.

6. Other German emigres who arrived after WW2 to work on the farms.


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