Mongali , Mafolofolo (M)

My great grand father W.H.Holterman was mortally wounded at Spruefontain,a farm near Laingsburg in the South Cape.The grave on the farmland has been very well tended by the family decendants to this day.I visited the site in 1983 where the farmer`s sister Mrs M Koorts made me welcome and told me of the events of that fateful day for g.g.grandfather,as the family had passed down the generations.William Holterman was shot in an ambush whilst on patrol and was taken into the farmhouse and his wounds tended.The next day however he passed away and a burial party dug the grave some 200 metres from the farmhouse.The bedroom was named thereafter the soldier`s room.The date was 10 th Oct.1901