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*Details of [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boer-Boy-Memoirs-Anglo-Boer-Youth-ebook/dp/B004DNVX9C/ref=tmm_kin_title_0 ''Boer Boy: Memoirs of an Anglo-Boer War Youth''] by Chris Schoeman. Charles du Preez, a ten year old boy and his father were taken prisoner by the British. Includes an account of the journey aboard the SS Aurania to the prisoner-of-war camps of Umballa and Solon where Charles was the youngest inmate. Based on an account Charles wrote later in life and other documentary sources. Available at the [[British Library]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131127125654/http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boer-Boy-Memoirs-Anglo-Boer-Youth-ebook/dp/B004DNVX9C/ref=tmm_kin_title_0 archive.org] link)
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*Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20120724205739/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/island-of-no-return/story-e6frg8rf-1226424604109 "Island of no return"] ([[St. Helena]]) by Gavin Bell ''Weekend Australian 14 July 2012'' Travel and Indulgence section, page 1 briefly says "Nothing remains of a prisoner-of-war camp on a high plateau where 6000 Afrikaners were held during the Boer War, but the graves of 156 who never saw their homeland again are carefully tended on a steep hillside. Two granite obelisks bearing their names stand as a memorial ..."
*Details of [http://www.pey.co.za/site/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=9&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1 ''The Anglo-Boer War Diaries of Jan Geldenhuys''] Includes the period from April 1902 when he was captured and sent as a prisoner of war to Umballa, where his experiences till 20th November 1902, were documented. He later met up with his father and brother who were POW’s at Bhimtal. The diaries were originally written in High Dutch. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131127124258/http://www.pey.co.za/site/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=9&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1 archive.org] link)
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