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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon GERRITSEN, Johannes Cornelis Born: fl 1895 Died: 1909 Architect Dutch immigrant arriving from s-Gravenhage, South Holland, appointed in August 1895 as Supervisor under WIERDA in ZAR PWD (MINNAAR, 2000: 45). Naturalised burger, served with the Hollander Corps in Platoon 1 where he was wounded in the scrotum and taken captive on 1899 10 21 at the Battle of Elandslaagte and deported as POW to St Helena (Ploeger 1989: 72). He returned to the Transvaal Colony in 1903 and died on the farm Kameeldrif, Pretoria (Ploeger, 1957: 305; Schoeman, 2011: 164). 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. Articles citing GERRITSEN Ploeger, J. 1957. Aantekeninge in verband met die eerste Hollanderkorps (1899). Africana Notes and News. 12 March 1956 - December 1957 298-312 Books citing GERRITSEN Ferreira, OJO (Editor and Annotator). 1977. Krijgsgevangenschap van L. C. Ruijssenaers 1899-1902. Pretoria: Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing. pp 182 MINNAAR, Enla. 2000. Grondleggende Argitekte van die Departement Openbare Werke in Transvaal tot 1910, hul werk en invloed. Pretoria: University of Pretoria, unpublished PhD(Arch). pp 45 Ploeger, Jan & De Kock, Gideon de V. 1989. Nederlandse emigrasie na Suid-Afrika 1800-1900. Port Elizabeth: University of Port Elizabeth. pp 72 Schoeman, Chris. 2011. Brothers in arms. Hollanders in the Anglo-Boer War. Cape Town: Zebra Press. pp 164