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Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Burger A. J. Oberholzer), extremely fine £160-180
A unique name on the respective Prisoner of War and League of Veterans nominal rolls. Abraham Jacobus Oberholzer, who was born on 10 May 1873, was a resident of Pypsteel, Edenburg, Orange Free State in 1899. During the Boer War, he served as a Burger with the Bethlehem Kommando, latterly having served under Kommandant Barkhuisen. Abraham is recorded as having surrendered and becoming a Prisoner-of-War on 5 May 1901. In later life he lived with his wife Maria Johanna Oberholzer (nee Fouche) at Naudestraat, Bethlehem, and is recorded to have died there on 22 August 1941.
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