B.P.C. Satara 15.3.02
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Unattributed, “B.P.C. Satara 15.3.02”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/12614
- Title
- B.P.C. Satara 15.3.02
- Creator
- Unattributed
- Description
- During the Anglo-Boer War, Satara (India) was one of the Prisoner-or-War (POW) camps used by the British Forces to imprison for Boers from South Africa. Elria Wessels wrote the following as a caption to the image, on the Facebook group “The Anglo-Boer War (The South African War) – 189 – 1902” (retrieved 19 August 2020). ‘This was a camp for 200 parolees and was situated 128 km south of Poona. They were mostly from Ahmednagar and were moved there in March 1902 after uproar broke out in the camp over the signing of parole. The men willing to sign feared for their life and had to be removed for their own safety. Petrus Joubert and his brothers were amongst the 180 men who finally signed the parole agreement at the station at Poona. They could move freely within a radius of 6 miles from the camp —a highly appreciated privilege especially after fifteen months confined in Ahmednagar. Major C.T. Wayte was in charge of the camp until its closure on 9 August 1902. The men were housed in huts which were slightly better appointed than those at Ahmednagar but they were uncomfortably hot. The camp itself was open i.e. it had no fence surrounding it.’
- Subject
- Concentration camps -- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Prisoners and prisons
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- Concentration camps
- South African War, 1899-1902 -- History -- Photographs
- Type
- Image
- Format
- jpg
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154387
- Date Issued
- 1902-03-15
- Contributor
- Wessels, Elria (descriptor)
- Rights Holder
- Unattributed
- Language
- English
- useGuidelines
- Public Domain
- Item sets
- South African War (1899-1902) Collection
- Hierarchies
-
South Africa at War Collection
- The Frontier Wars (1811-1878)
- South African War (1899-1902) (103 items)
- World War II (3 items)
Unattributed, “B.P.C. Satara 15.3.02”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/12614
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