Port Elizabeth Concentration Camp Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Knagur Green: Due to no response from the CO after the request to maintain or replace the cache, I am archiving it to, stop it showing on the listings and/or to create place for the geocaching community.

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Knagur Green
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Hidden : 5/8/2014
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A quick and easy roadside cache at the site of the Anglo Boer War Concentration Camp in Port Elizabeth.

This Anglo Boer War concentration camp was in operation in Port Elizabeth from December 1900 until approximately November 1902. It held an average of 230 children and 86 women who were housed corrugated iron huts. It was encircled by a high barbed wire fence. There was also a separate fenced camp for 32 men in tents.

There were very few deaths in this so-called "model camp" compared to the the thousands that dies in the other camps. Only 12 deaths were recorded over the period it was in existence. This camp housed mainly Boers from the Free State from Jagersfontein and Fauresmith. Among them was General, and later Prime Minister, JBM Hertzog 's mother, wife, three sisters in-law and their children.

There are a number of sites associated with this camp, the Graves and Memorial being in North End Cemetery (33° 55.382'S  25° 36.472'E) Further information can be obtained from the The British Concentration Camps of the South African War website (see link under related website).

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Cbyr yrsg bs ragenapr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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