TOPIC:

I wonder how serious Mr Dillon was in his question about sending Boer prisoner to Ireland?


HoC, 26 April 1901

MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ahmednagar, the place to which 500 Boer prisoners have recently been sent, is unhealthy and in every respect unsuitable as a place of imprisonment for men coming from such a climate as that of South Africa; and whether he will consider the desirability of transferring these prisoners to some more suitable place, and whether he will consider the desirability of sending Boer prisoners in the future to Ireland.

David.....

India or Ireland..... Don't they both speak foreign languages.....?????

LOL

Mike

The British Empire was huge!

QSAMIKE wrote: David.....

India or Ireland..... Don't they both speak foreign languages.....?????

LOL

Mike

I always thought they chose the closest locations to SA possible. Shopping men to the UK would have been the furthest possible point?

Jamaica is quite far from S. Africa as is Ceylon...

With Apologies but as apt today as will ever be

"IF I should die, think only this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign field"




From Durbar Vol 30 No 1 2013

Heilig ter gedachtenis van de Boeren Krygsgevangenen wier namen hieronder gegevan worden die gestorven te Kakool gedurende het jaar 1902 en die in de nabyheid van dezen steen begraven zyn

Sacred to the memory of the Boer Prisoners of War whose names are here recorded who died at Kakul between the years 1901-1903 and who are buried close to this stone.

The grave yard includes 44 graves, two of which belong to 2nd Bt KRRC