BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name: H J Snyman
Born in camp? No
Died in camp? No
Gender:male
Race:white
Unique ID:430
Camp History
Name:Vredefort Road RC
Date departure:21/3/1901
Reason departure:allowed to join family in Heilbron camp
Notes:15/3/1901: S asks to be transferred to Heilbron or nearest camp to Heilbron, where his family is; he was wounded at Coolsberg [sic] on 1 January 1900 & is still in deplorable state, having been in hospital 13 months and 13 days.
13/3/1901: Superintendent in support, noting that he is 'quite an invalid' and goes about on crutches with no one to attend to him
21/3/1901: CSRC agrees
Sources
Title:SRC 03
Type:Correspondence
Location:VAB
Reference No.:03
Dates:Mar 1901 RC497-779
Notes:RC 698, 15/3/1901, Snyman to Superintendent, Vredefort Road & 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.