TODAY IN KIMBERLEY’S HISTORY 16 MAY Headmaster of Boys High School, Leopold Complin Wilkes, dies of typhus, 1899 DID YOU KNOW That Jan Booysen was an Agterryer during the Anglo-Boer war for Klein Piet du Toit, the son of the du Toit of Dutoitspan Kimberley. At Magersfontein, Booysen was holding the horses at the cutback when the British shells landed among them. He recalled that the lyddite affected the young horses who staggered around and then died. The older horses were not affected at all. (Pictured are the Horse Memorial in Port Elizabeth and the stone plinth Horse Memorial for the Anglo-Boer War in Kimberley). On 12 December 1899 he was at the burial of the Highlanders at the two graves west of the Black Watch memorial. He said the Highlanders were black, black (from the sun) and that when they were buried the old Boers were crying, and saying that they had been lied to about whom they were fighting against. The Highlanders, the Boers said, were their friends and that they were supposed to be fighting the English and not the Scottish.
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