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Monday, 16 September 2019

British prisoner of war transport Victoria ariving in St. Helena Island according to the Dutch newspaper Goessche Courant dated Saturday 15 December 1900

An item reported that last Tuesday evening again 200 Boers were landed in St. Helena Island brought there with the British transport Victoria.

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.