Bittereinder
Sign in to savethumb|Plaque on the Potchefstroom Concentration Camp Memorial. Translated text: Memorial stone / In honor of the / 967 children 117 women and 57 men / who died in the camps here / during the war of 1899-1902. / "Their memory will live on" / Revealed by / Mrs. the widow. Gen J. H de la Rey. / On 16 Dec. 1918. / C.F. Kirkbride
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thumb|Plaque on the Potchefstroom Concentration Camp Memorial. Translated text: Memorial stone / In honor of the / 967 children 117 women and 57 men / who died in the camps here / during the war of 1899-1902. / "Their memory will live on" / Revealed by / Mrs. the widow. Gen J. H de la Rey. / On 16 Dec. 1918. / C.F. Kirkbride
The Bittereinders () or irreconcilables were a faction of Boer guerrilla fighters, resisting the forces of the British Empire in the later stages of the Second Boer War (1899–1902).
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