Knollcombes Boer Prisoner of War Memorial

Two granite monuments in the Boer Prisoner of War cemetery at Knollcombes, near Longwood, St Helena, commemorating the Boer POWs who died on the island 1900-1902 (enteric fever outbreak in 1902 accounted for many). The older, prisoner-built monument lists names with individual grave numbers; a second monument, added by the Union Government in 1913, lists names alphabetically without grave numbers.

Location: Knollcombes, near Longwood, St Helena

Address: Knollcombes Road, Longwood, Saint Helena

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Photographs

Overview of the Boer Prisoner of War cemetery at Knollcombes | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Overview of the marked individual grave stones | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

The two granite monuments together (1902 prisoner-built and 1913 Union Government) | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Name panels

Panel 1

Panel 1 — prisoner-built monument, graves 1-23: Van den Berg-Du Plooy | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 2

Panel 2 — prisoner-built monument, graves 1-30 (closer view): De Beer-Lubbe | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 3

Panel 3 — prisoner-built monument, graves 31-54: Badenhorst-Toeset | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 4

Panel 4 — prisoner-built monument, graves 43-60: Geyer-Van der Vlugt | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 5

Panel 5 — prisoner-built monument, graves 61-84: Naude-Buitendag | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 6

Panel 6 — prisoner-built monument, graves 74-90: Broese-Le Roux | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 7

Panel 7 — prisoner-built monument, graves ~91-109 (weathered, not fully transcribed) | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 8

Panel 8 — 1913 Union Government monument (alphabetical, no grave numbers): Badenhorst-Erikson | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 9

Panel 9 — 1913 Union Government monument (alphabetical, no grave numbers): Ferreira-Van der Merwe | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 10

Panel 10 — 1913 Union Government monument (alphabetical, no grave numbers): Nel-Steyn | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 11

Panel 11 — 1913 Union Government monument (alphabetical, no grave numbers): Oosthuizen-Du Toit | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Panel 12

Panel 12 — 1913 Union Government monument (alphabetical, no grave numbers): Venter-Van Zyl | Photo: Margaret Gundry; caption: Dal Good & Wilna Eygelaar (eGGSA Graves - Worldwide, Saint Helena album, Original Photo

Names on Panel 1 Names on Panel 2 Names on Panel 3 Names on Panel 4 Names on Panel 5 Names on Panel 6 Names on Panel 7 Names on Panel 8 Names on Panel 9 Names on Panel 10 Names on Panel 11 Names on Panel 12