Recently, there have been a number a posts about Boer POW's, and they reminded me of an unanswered question I had about one such POW I recorded previously. The story of Edward Meyers is here:
angloboerwar.com/forum/surname-m/18029-m...-edward-burger#40787
After he was captured, Meyers was sent to the Ahmednagar Camp in India. Later he was moved to Amritsar in the Punjab, which is 1800 km north of Ahmednagar. This was a fortunate move for Meyers, because it was in Amritsar that he met and married a young British resident of that city. It was not his good fortune that resulted from his move that puzzled me, but rather why the move was made in the first place. There would have had to have been a very good reason for transferring one, and perhaps more men such a long distance after they had already been settled in one camp.
Can anyone suggest a reason why such a transfer of a POW was made?
Brett
angloboerwar.com/forum/surname-m/18029-m...-edward-burger#40787
After he was captured, Meyers was sent to the Ahmednagar Camp in India. Later he was moved to Amritsar in the Punjab, which is 1800 km north of Ahmednagar. This was a fortunate move for Meyers, because it was in Amritsar that he met and married a young British resident of that city. It was not his good fortune that resulted from his move that puzzled me, but rather why the move was made in the first place. There would have had to have been a very good reason for transferring one, and perhaps more men such a long distance after they had already been settled in one camp.
Can anyone suggest a reason why such a transfer of a POW was made?
Brett