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Served: Frankfort.

From the next City Coins auction, November 2020

ABO (Z.J.A. de Beer)

Zacharias de Beer was a “Bitter-einder” who served for the full duration of the war, mainly in the Frankfort Commando under Commandant Alexander Ross.

He was in action at Spion Kop and took part in Gen de Wet’s invasion of the Cape Colony. (Tabaksberg, 29 Jan 1901, and Hamelfontein, 12 Feb 1901).

Is this the same Z.J. de Beer captured at Hopetown on 23.2.1901?
POW# 16849
Interned at Armednagaar
Shipped on the Harweden.

I think they have it incorrectly that he survived the war on commando. He surrendered while on commando with de Wet on his failed invasion.

There is no Zacharias Johannes Arnoldus de Beer on the pow database.