British transport Oratava transporting Boer war prisoners back to South Africa according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated Saturday 27 September 1902

An item reported that coming Wednesday the British transport Oratava was to leave London to embark 1,000 Boers at St. Helena Island and to bring them back to South Africa.(1)

Note

1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.