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BOER PRISONERS OF WAR IN BERMUDA

1904: REMAINING IRRECONCILABLES

FC Launspach,
an internee, who had left for the United States on 20 August 1904 provided the names of remaining irreconcilables:

 STATUS  NAME  AGE  PLACE
 Single  HFC Prinsloo  35  of Pretoria, ZAR
 Married  JA Lowe  29  of Fauresmith, OVS
 Single  RJ Swanepoel  35  of Lichtenburg, ZAR
 Single  *W Duweling  40  of Johannesburg, ZAR
 Married  WP Laubscher  63  of Zeerust, ZAR
 Single  DJ Greyling  26  of Smithfield, OVS
 Single  PJ Mielitz  33  of Pretoria, ZAR
 Married  J Bothma  53  of Ermelo, ZAR
 Single  MJ Swart  38  of Middleburg, ZAR

*Mr Duweling was re-interred, on Port's Island, along with other Germans, during the First World War, according to Andrew Bermingham's researches into this subject. He left for Canada in 1918.

LAUBSCHER'S CEDAR SHOP

Source:
BOER PRISONERS OF WAR IN BERMUDA, published 1962 by the Bermuda Historical Society , Par-la-Ville, Hamilton, Bermuda.
Used with permission by author Colin H. Benbow.