| Personal Details |
| Name: | Mrs Henrietta Esther Carolina Armstrong |
| Maiden name: | Oberholzer |
| Type: | Staff |
| Date of birth: | 18620221 |
| Place of birth: | Fauresmith |
| Born in camp? |
No |
| Died in camp? |
No |
| Gender: | female |
| Race: | white |
| Marital status: | married |
| Nationality: | Transvaal |
| Camp occupation: | volunteer nurse |
| Notes: | Daughter of W Oberholzer and Anna Kieser; educated at Dames Instiuut Eunice.
8/4/1890 married John Edward Armstrong in Kimberley, who worked for various banks including, from 1/6/1895, ZAR Nasionale Bank. At one stage she ran a boarding house in Pretoria. The marriage was not a happy one and they separated at the beginning of the SA War. They were finally divorced 13/12/1907.
p.7 Initially she worked as a field nurse in the ambulance of Dr Johan Balthasar Knobel, founder and vice-chairman of the Transvaalsche Roode Kruis, and was present at the Battle of Colenso on 15/12/1899.
p.59 She was one of the first two nurses to work in Irene RC. |
| Unique ID: | 114738 |
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British Concentration Camps