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DescriptionGraveyard Paardefontein with monuments to old Voortrekker, and Trooper Angus Jenkins.JPG |
English: Family graveyard on farm "Paardefontein" R547, near Val, Mpumalanga. My grandfather told me the story of an incident during the Boer War: The Boers were guarding a drift in the Waterval River, while the British camp was about 5 km downstream. One day the Boers "got bored" with no action, and decided to create some. About 7 of them rode downstream, gave a few pot shots at the British camp, and rushed back. The British were under the impression that they had been attacked by a large commando and pursued their attackers, whereby they allowed themselves to be led into an ambush. One soldier was killed, but his comrades did not return to claim his body. He was buried in the nearby cattle kraal. After peace was declared, he was re-interred in the family graveyard. My grandfather pointed out the spot in the family graveyard where "die Engelsman" was buried. Many years later, research was done on the event, and the possible identity of the "previously unknown British Soldier" was revealed. In 2013 David Scholtz, member of the Military History Society, sponsored a monument to Trooper Angus Jenkins of Strathcona's Horse, besides a new headstone for Jacobus Nicolaas van den Berg, a Voortrekker, who at the age of 81 was perhaps the oldest Boer on Commando. |
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