P02578.009 Accession Number: P02578.009

Description

Kritzinger's Commando on the move. The Boers "inspan" (saddle up) their horses from a camp site rested behind a range of hills. Several canvas tents and horse drays are visible. Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger led the Rouxville Commando in the Cape Colony. In 1901 he was promoted to General being appointed as Assistant Chief Commandant of the Free State and colonial forces in the Cape Colony. An able leader, on 16 December that year, he was wounded and captured to survive the war.

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Accession Number
P02578.009
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1900
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor W H Philp
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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