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Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Transport Danera arriving at Port Louis with Boer war prisoners according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 30 December 1902

An item referred to the newspaper Standard which received a telegram from Port Louis reporting the arrival of the transport Danera with on board 1,022 Boers prisoners of war to be brought to Durban.

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.