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Also recorded as BOURSE An immigrant from Holland. He was appointed on 11 September 1893 as a Draughtsman in the DPW ZAR under WIERDA at a salary of £225 per annum. As with all officials in civil service of the then ZAR he swore an oath of allegiance to the Republic at a magistrate's office. He requested release from service in 1894 where he was recorded as 1st Draughtsman at an annual salary of £225 per annum (MINNAAR, 2000: 40). He was again in 1895 appointed in a temporary capacity as draughtsman [although spelt BOURSE] at a salary of £25 per month (Almanak, 1895: 154). By 1897 he is recorded in permanent employ of the DPW as Supervisor (1st Class) at an annual salary of £400 per annum, a position he held until the outbreak of the South African War in 1899. Uys (1981) cites from a memoir of Boursse that, as member of the Heidelberg-Klip River Field Cornetcy, he served with Mattheus MEISCHKE and Hendrik Simmelink [SEMMELINK] amongst others in the South African War. [Further research is needed]. (Uys, Ian. 1981. Heidelbergers of the Boer War. Knysna: Forest Books.) All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References
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