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Reference:
Baker, Anthony, Battles & Battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 (Milton Keynes, The
Military Press, 1999); Burnham, Frederick Russell, ed. Mary N. Everett, Scouting on Two
Continents (New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928); De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years War
(London, Archibald Constable, 1902); Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South Africa 1899–
1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999).
Schanze
A temporary shelter or hut. When they occupied positions for any length of time, the Boers built stone
shelters for protection against the elements.
Scarves, Queen Victoria’s
Queen Victoria was deeply concerned with the heroism and exploits of her troops in South Africa.
She crotcheted five scarves to be presented to the “best all-round men” and they were awarded to
Colour-sergeant Ferrett of the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, Trooper L. Chadwick of
Roberts’ Horse, R. Thompson of the Royal Canadian Regiment, Private Duffrayer of the New South
Wales Mounted Infantry and H. D. Coutts of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry.
See also:
Chocolate, The Queen’s.
Scheepers, Commandant Gideon J.,
1878–1902
Gideon Scheepers became a regular Boer soldier and joined the Staatsartilleriein 1898. He was
seconded to the Artillery of the Orange Free State as a communications expert and then served under
Christiaan De Wet as an intelligence officer. In this capacity he is credited with organising some of
De Wet’s more spectacular escapes. In April 1901 he took his men into Cape Colony, hoping to
persuade the Cape Afrikaners to rise against the British. He penetrated as far as Mossel Bay, on the
coast between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Falling ill in October, he had to be abandoned by his
men and his agterryer,his black servant Hendrik, wept bitterly at the parting. Scheepers was put on
trial by the British at Graaff Retinet on more than thirty charges of murder, arson, train wrecking and
ill-treatment of prisoners. He had shot two coloured defenders of a farm near Jansenville in the
eastern Cape earlier that year and others whom he regarded as traitors. He was found guilty and, on
18 January 1902, was tied to a chair and shot. His determination to carry on the fight had been great.
In July 1901 he wrote to Christiaan De Wet to say that the blood of too many brave burghers had been
shed to give up the struggle; he would fight to the death.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999); Lee, Emanoel, To The
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