BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name:Dr Joseph Hirst Clarke
Type:Staff
Born in camp? No
Died in camp? No
Gender:male
Race:white
Occupation:doctor
Camp occupation:doctor
Notes:Medical Directory, 1900, p.1757: Overseas: Dordrecht CC & Johannesburg, Transvaal; MRCS Eng 1870; LSA 1870; (Sheffield, Lond, Paris); late Lect on Diseases of Eye and Demonst of Anat Sheffield Med School; Surg Colon forces (Medal 1879-80 Basuloand); Surg Cape Ry and Conv Station, Fort Cunninghame, and MOH, KWT.

Medical Directory, 1903, p.1595: Overseas: Booysen's Johannesburg;
Unique ID:1022
Camp History
Name:Orange River RC
Date departure:22/4/1902
Reason departure:dismissed because services no longer required; thanked for good work
Sources
Title:SRC 40
Type:Correspondence: appointments
Location:VAB
Reference No.:40
Dates:Apr-May 1902
Notes:A1211, CSRC to SRC, Orange River
Title:SRC 07
Type:Correspondence
Location:VAB
Reference No.:07
Dates:May 1901
Notes:RC1964, 12/5/1901, JH Clarke to DA and related correspondence
Title:SRC 07
Type:Correspondence
Location:VAB
Reference No.:07
Dates:May 1901
Notes:RC1964, 12/5/1901, JH Clarke to DA and related correspondence


Acknowledgments: The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is not responsible for the contents of the database. The help of the following research assistants is gratefully acknowledged: Ryna Boshoff, Murray Gorman, Janie Grobler, Marelize Grobler, Luke Humby, Clare O’Reilly Jacomina Roose, Elsa Strydom, Mary van Blerk. Thanks also go to Peter Dennis for the design of the original database and to Dr Iain Smith, co-grantholder.