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Afrikaans: Graf op "Paardefontein", 'n plaas aan die R547, naby Val, Mpumalanga. My oupa het my van 'n voorval tydens die Boereoorlog vertel: Die Boere het 'n drif in die Watervalrivier bewaak, terwyl die Britse kamp sowat 5 km stroomaf was. Op 'n dag het die Boere tydens 'n gebrek aan aksie "verveeld geraak" en besluit om vir opwinding te sorg. Sowat 7 Boere het stroomaf gery, 'n paar potskote op die Britse kamp gerig en dan teruggejaag. Die Britte was onder die indruk dat hulle deur 'n groot kommando aangeval is en het hul aanvallers agternagesit, waardeur hulle toegelaat het dat hulle in 'n hinderlaag gelei word. Een soldaat is dood, maar sy kamerade het nie teruggekeer om sy liggaam op te eis nie. Hy is in die nabygeleë beeskraal begrawe. Nadat vrede verklaar is, is hy weer in die familiebegraafplaas begrawe. My oupa het die plek in die familiebegraafplaas uitgewys waar "die Engelsman" begrawe is. Baie jare later het navorsing oor die gebeurtenis die moontlike identiteit van die “voorheen onbekende Britse soldaat” onthul. In 2013 het David Scholtz, lid van die Militêre Geskiedenis Vereniging, 'n monument vir Trooper Angus Jenkins van Strathcona's Horse geborg.
English: My grandfather told me the story of an incident during the Boer War: The Boers were guarding a drift in the Waterval River, while the British camp was about 5 km downstream. One day the Boers "got bored" with no action, and decided to create some. About 7 of them rode downstream, gave a few pot shots at the British camp, and rushed back. The British were under the impression that they had been attacked by a large commando and forthwith pursued their attackers, whereby they allowed themselves to be led into an ambush. One soldier was killed, but his comrades did not return to claim his body. He was buried in the nearby cattle kraal. After peace was declared, he was re-interred in the family graveyard. My grandfather pointed out the spot in the family graveyard where "die Engelsman" was buried. Many years later, research was done on the event, and the possible identity of the "previously unknown British Soldier" was revealed. In 2013 David Scholtz, member of the Military History Society, sponsored a monument to Trooper Angus Jenkins of Strathcona's Horse. |
| Date | pre-1900 |
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