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Hi Sturgy,
A great addition to your collection. I guess alot of photographic material would have been lost when farms were burnt and families moved to concentration camps. So we are lucky to have them.
A great medal to a die hard bitter-ender!
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Steve

I am extremely grateful to EFV for helping me to re-unite these two amazing artefacts; given the likeness between the picture frame that JJP Meyer made and the one from Bermuda in 1903 the romantic in me can't help but imagine that it was made by the same man; especially considering that there weren't many POWs left by then.

Either way I am extremely grateful to EFV; thanks again.

What's fascinating about this hobby is how much there is to learn about the lives of those who have come before us.

In researching the medal to JJP Meyer it sparked an interest in the lives of "The Irreconcilables" from the Bermuda POW camp.

I was fortunate to track down a copy of Colin Benbow's "Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda" from 1982 where he details some of the exploits of the Irreconcilables as well as the numbers of POW's remaining in 1903 /1904.

Reference and courtesy of "Boer Prisoners of War in Bermuda" by Colin Benbow, 2nd Edition 1982:



Since JJP Meyer returned to South Africa in October 1904 he was possibly one of the two POWs mentioned as having left shortly after 21 August 1904 or at the least was one of the 21 remaining on the 10th July 1904.

Since the remaining 9 were still there in September 1910 and essentially never left, or went to he US/Canada after 1910, in means that JJP Meyer was either one of the last 12 POW's or one of the last 2 POW's to leave the Island.

It's fair to say that he was truly one of the Irreconcilables of the War.