Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camp Children's Cemetery

Springfontein,
Free State

Memorial built in memory of the children
Photographer: Annelise Lange - 2018

Date:1899-1902
Type:Cemetery
Status:Extant

 

Coordinates:
30°15'25.91" S 25°42'04.90" E Alt: 1526m

Notes:

This cemetery is where they buried all the unbaptised children that died in the Concentration Camp in Springfontein during the years of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899 - 1902.

No date yet for when the cemetery was upgraded.


Direction board to Kinderkerkhof - Cemetery
Photographer: Annelise Lange - 2018

Direction board to Anglo Boer War Cemetery
Photographer: Annelise Lange - 2018

Entrance gate 'VIR VRYHEID EN VIR REG' - 'FOR FREEDOM AND FOR JUSTICE'
Photographer: Annelise Lange - 2018

Reconstructed graves
Photographer: Annelise Lange - 2018

List of children's names
Photographer: Annelise Lange - 2018