BCCDBritish Concentration Camps
of the South African War
1900-1902

Personal Details
Name:Dr Theodore Henderson Molesworth
Type:Staff
Born in camp? No
Died in camp? No
Gender:male
Race:white
Nationality:British
Occupation:doctor
Camp occupation:doctor
Notes:Medical Register, 1900, p.978: Provincial: The Lodge, Pembury, Kent; BA Camb, MB, BC 1898; MRCS, LRCP Lond 1896 (Camb and St Bart); Shuter Schol. Bart 1894; Mem Aberneth Soc; late Sen House Surg and Vis Surg Stockport Infirm.
Unique ID:1796
Camp History
Name:Winburg RC
Date departure:23/12/1902
Reason departure:dismissed with breaking up of camp; thanked for good work
Destination:England
Date appointed (as staff):15/8/1901
Notes:19/10/1901: Molesworth to CSRC: came out on SS Assaye, specially recruited for work in ORC camps.

20/6/1902: SRC, Winburg to CSRC: Asking to be released from service and passage home to England.
30/6/1902: Molesworth to SRC, Winburg: re agreement and noting that a bonus was mentioned; brings this forward as he has not had a day's leave since he arrived in July last year, and was the only medical man living in this camp during the first seven months, with epidemic raging amongst a population of over 3000.
Sources
Title:SRC 14
Type:Correspondence
Location:VAB
Reference No.:14
Dates:Sept-Oct 1901
Notes:RC5545, 19/10/1901: Molesworth to CSRC and related correspondence
Title:SRC 42
Type:Correspondence: appointments
Location:VAB
Reference No.:42
Dates:June-July 1902
Notes:A1522, 20/6/1902: SRC, Winburg to CSRC and related correspondence
Title:CO 26A Correspondence
Type:Secretary to the ORC Administration
Location:Free State Archives Repository
Reference No.:26A
Notes:2370/01: List of doctors sailing from England for service in RCs
Title:SRC 47
Type:Correspondence: appointments
Location:VAB
Reference No.:47
Dates:Jan-Apr 1903
Notes:A2307, 23/12/1902, CSRC to SRC, Winburg 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.