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were equally invisible to those recording events, except when something went wrong that could
be attributed to them.
Deneys Reitz, who wrote the best personal narrative account of the war, recounts that before the
Pretoria commando crossed the Natal border in October 1899, his father sent a family servant,
Charley, to him and his brother. They were delighted to turn over their cooking and the care of their
horses to him, and later, at Ladysmith, to benefit from his claimed relationship with local
tribespeople in order to acquire better rations than their comrades could get.
See also:
Africans, Black; Provisions; Reitz, Action at; Reitz, Deneys.
Reference:
Labuschagne, Pieter, Ghostriders of the Anglo-Boer War (Pretoria, Unisa Press, 1999); Reitz,
Deneys, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War (London, Faber & Faber, 1929);
Warwick, Peter, Black People and the South African War 1899–1902 (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1983).
Albrecht, Major F. W. R.,
1846–1926
Albrecht was born in Potsdam, Prussia, in 1848 and joined the artillery in his own country in 1867.
He came to the Orange Free State in 1879 and became a captain in the Vrystaatse
Artilleriekorps,which he made into an effective force. He served against the British in the northeastern Cape, giving Lord Methuen’s troops some difficult fighting up to the Battle of Magersfontein.
He was amongst those captured at the Battle of Paardeberg, as were his fellow Orange Free State
artillerymen, the six foot, seven inch (2m) tall Baron van Dewitz and Lieutenant van Heister. He
returned to Bloemfontein after the war and was in public service until 1910.
See also:
Belmont, Battle of; Graspan, Battle of; Magersfontein, Battle of; Paardeberg, Battle of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Aliwal North
A railway terminus and town on the Orange River, the border between Cape Colony and the Orange
Free State, eighty miles (130km) east of Norval’s Pont on the railway from Cape Town to
Bloemfontein. The town was occupied by the Boers at the start of the war but was taken by Brigadiergeneral Brabant’s Colonial Division on 11 March 1900. Assistant Chief-commandant Kritzinger
threatened the town briefly during the Boer invasion of the Cape in January 1901. A concentration
camp for white people was set up here and had 4,437 inmates in August 1901.
See also:
Labuschagnes Nek, Battle of.
Reference:
Jones, Huw M. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999).
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