An item reported that the British transport Bavaria brought 1,335 Boers to St. Helena island. Probably were this the men taken away from the camps of Simonsstad and Groene Punt during the invasion of the Cape Colony and which was promised that they were not taken outside South-Africa.
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.
