Du Preez, Gerhardus Christoffel Snyman (G C S)

Gerhardus Christoffel Snyman DU PREEZ Birth: 31 May 1872 Klein Winterhoek Death: 4 May 1900 Winburg, OVS hospitaal Chr: Uitenhage Occupation: policeman of the ZAR Spouse: Anna Christina VAN DER MERWE 3 of his brothers also fought against the british. 2 where captured and send to Ceylon where they died in 1900 and 1902.a 3d Brother,Hercules Petrus du Preez, My great grandfather, survived, but his wife Maria Sophia Viljoen died in Bloemfontein British consentration camp. My grandfather, her son, was a boy and hid in the Maluti mountains in caves with black farmworkers. After the war my great Grandfather could not find his son and thought he died with his mother in the consentration camp. He carried on and lived a full new life with a new wife.