Deneys Reitz
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Deneys Reitz, was a South African soldier, author, adventurer and statesman. Best known as the author of Commando, which detailed his experience in the Second Boer War, he also fought against the Mari
Deneys Reitz
Deneys Reitz while acting as Kommando during the Second Boer War
The Second Smuts Cabinet, c.1923. Deneys Reitz is second left in the back row.
Deneys Reitz as Minister of Native Affairs visiting a British Army camp in Aldershot on 22 November 1939
Bittereinder
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The Bittereinders or irreconcilables were a faction of Boer guerrilla fighters, resisting the forces of the British Empire in the later stages of the Second Boer War.
Deneys Reitz
…The son of Orange Free State President Francis William Reitz, Reitz fought as a Boer commando for the duration of the Second Boer War, including as a Bittereinder under General Jan Smuts in the Cape Colony. After the war, he refused to sign an oath of allegiance to Britain, and followed his father into exile…
Plaque on the Potchefstroom Concentration Camp Memorial. Translated text: Memorial stone / In honor of the / 967 children 117 women and 57 men / who died in the camps here / during the war of 1899-1902. / "Their memory will live on" / Revealed by / Mrs. the widow. Gen J. H de la Rey. / On 16 Dec. 1918. / C.F. Kirkbride