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Served: Heidelberg. Awarded the DTD (Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst) and received the Wound Ribbon (Lint voor Verwonding).

Another gem from the Heidelberg cemetery - the impressive monument to Johan Christian Kriegler - he was wounded at Tafelkop on 28 March 1900 and killed in action at Brandfort in the OFS on 9 June 1900 aged 42.

I understand Commandant Kriegler had a spinal wound which paralysed him. I was told that the British allowed his wife to nurse him until he eventually died (as most paralysed/wounded men did at that time from urinary infection and/or bed sores).
His grandson is Judge Johan Kriegler, one of South Africa's highly respected Constitutional Court judges.