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Part 4a: Native Refugee Camps - Native Scouts & Line Watchers

I am really pleased that the album includes photographs from Native Refugee Camps; the complete list can be located here:
www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/8...tration-camps-blacks

The three Native Refugee Camps photographed were:
  • Holfontein
  • Geneva
  • Vet River









Group of Native Scouts. [x] on the left.
Holfontein January 1902







Group of native line watchers
Geneva & Holfontein sub-section
Holfontein Fort in background
Holfontein December 1901
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Part 4b: Native Refugee Camps - Line Watchers Pay Day







The Adjutant paying the native line watchers.
"Kenny" making his [tot?]
Holfontein November 1901







Major Scooner paying native line watchers at Holfontein Camp
Holfontein
November 1901
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Part 4c: Native Refugee Camps - Vet River School Children









School Children
Vet River
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Part 4d: Native Refugee Camps - Geneva



Group of native woman at Geneva Native Refugee Camp
December 1901





Geneva Native Refugee Camp





Three "kitchen maids"
Geneva September 1901

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Part 4e: Native Refugee Camps - Vet river





"Darby & Joan"
An old blind couple at the Native Refuge Camp, Vet River
March 1902







The domestic staff & "[Voss or Boss]" of Vet River Native Refugee Camp
Vet River
April 1902



The domestic staff at Native Refugee Camp, Vet River ([Gored?] in rear)
Vet River
April 1902
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Part 4f: General



Natives listening to a gramophone which is playing in the officers coach of No. 9 Armoured Train standing at Ventersburg Road siding

Ventersburg Road
September 1901



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All uncaptioned but same woman & child

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