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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). 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 References 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 Pretoria: University of Pretoria, unpublished PhD (Arch).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