Scheepers's commando rides into Klaarstroom

1 February 1901 · district · Klaarstroom

[SRC-010, Rose Willis Klaarstroom cameo. TERTIARY, TO VERIFY] Gideon Scheepers, Fouche and some 300 men, led in by Lieutenant FANIE SWANEPOEL, raided the post office and the government stores. Deneys Reitz was with them and describes it in Commando. Next day Lt-Col R.K. Parke of the 18th Imperial Yeomanry sent two patrols and five howitzers up the KREDOUW PASS from Prince Albert to drive them out. The village stands on PAR-000097.

Ground it happened on

• De Claar Stroom (Klaarstroom No. 178)

Sources

• Rose Willis and Doreen Atkinson, with Judy Maguire and Bruce Rubidge, "Klaarstroom: Ancient place of clear waters" (Karoo Cameos, 2021) Karoo Cameos, 2021
• Deneys Reitz, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War (1929) full text, 624,407 characters; index and all chapters present

Told in

• evidence De Claar Stroom: the farm the town stands on