Jacobus Johannes Gideon Louw was die seun van David Josephus Nel en Jacoba Hendrika Maria Strauss.
Uit hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1890:
Uit hulle ouma Maria Magdalena Strauss se sterfkennis van 1896:
Uit hulle pa se sterfkennis van 1918:
(Foto: Hetta Cooke)
Jacobus Johannes Gideon Louw
Nel getroud met Helena Maria Aletta Spangenberg op 3 Oktober 1898 te Calvinia
Foto:
Reana Nel Esterhuizen
League
of Veterans
Surname
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Nel
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Name
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Jacobus Johannes Gideon
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Date Birth
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23.3.1877
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Residence
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Rietfontein
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Name Last Officer
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Genl M. Maritz
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Weapon
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31.5.1902
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When Killed
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Widow Veteran
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Branch
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Calvinia
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Notes
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56
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Ref ID
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9793
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A thriving trade was set up in the Mierland
near Rietfontein, where German officers regularly crossed the border to buy
horses from the Boers. Exorbitant prices were paid for this hardy breed of
desert mount: £20 for a mule, £16 per horse and £3 61 per donkey.
During March and April 1902. In a
clash at Rietfontein, 32 km north-west of Calvinia, on the 2nd March, Cmdt.
W.H. de Vos of Theron's commando was killed.
On 31st March 1902, at Brussels, Cmdt.
Alleman wrote a vague and tautological account of his mission, touching on the
events at Schuitdrift: 'On arriving at the Orange river, I had, according to my
orders, to investigate certain matters and found it necessary to send Lieut.
Steyn back to General Smuts to inform him of certain irregularities committed
by certain burghers across the border of (South) West Africa, and to request
him to lay down stricter rules for the commandos stationed along the Orange
river, so that our communication line will 79 not be interrupted and so that it
can be properly established.' On receipt of Cmdt. Alleman's despatches at
Kakamas, Genl. Smuts sent Lieut. Steyn on a mission to Rietfontein. He was
joined by F-C. A.J. Stadler, with 35 men. North of Swartmodder, at Middelpos,
they clashed with coloured scouts who were disputing their entry into the
Mierland. The chief of the Mierland Basters, David Vilander, was killed in this
clash. 80 From Middelpos the patrol went on to Rietfontein, where illicit
supplies were being secretly stored at the house of C.F.A. Le Riche, a local
trader and farmer. These supplies included clothing, hats, shoes and tobacco,
all of which had come from Holland, also a number of heavy electrical battery
sets for some unknown 81 pupose. This load was transported back to Kakamas by
wagon. (THE GUERRILLA WAR IN THE CAPE COLONY DURING
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR OF 1899-1902: A CASE STUDY OF THE REPUBLICAN AND REBEL
COMMANDO MOVEMENT BY RODNEY JAMES CONSTANTINE. February 1996)
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