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Commandant Gideon Scheepers and the search for his grave by David and Taffy Shearing Cape Commando Series No. 2. The Anglo Boer War record of 351 members of his commando.
Soft cover. privately printed by the authors.239 pages including index.Illustrated with B&W Photographs.
Signed by both David and Taffy Shearing.
Back cover reads
" Gideon Scheepers , a dynamic young Boer leader, raced into the Cape Colony in december 1900, riding his beloved Albany. It was the horse that was to have the luck.
Commandant Gideon Scheepers and the Search for his Grave commemorates the manner of Sceeper's passing and the mystery that followed. This book documents his early life and career in the Orange Free State as a heliographer, his war record and final year in the Cape Colony. Using both new material and previously published sources, his own voice rings out again as he documents his surrender, trial and approaching execution.
Written for the centenary of the Anglo-Boer War, this book tries to understand something of the times and the 'victory at any price' attitude that ruled both sides during that conflict.
Over the past twenty years Taffy Shearing and her husband David have travelled all over the Cape searching for memories of the Anglo-Boer War and botanical specimens. The results were Taffy's 1989 MA (Hons) thesis, 'The Second Invasion of the Cape Colony during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1901-02' and Davids 'Karoo, Wild Flower Guide No.6' which was published by the Botanical Society.
In 1998 they published the first book in the Cape Commando Series, Commandant Johannes Lotter and his Rebels, which lifted a little known rebel commandant captured with his commando in 1901, from obscurity.
There is a section which Includes Names and short notes on the men who were in this commando.
In good condition.
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