<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397774" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Commandant Gideon Scheepers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They tried to send him to hell, <br>as if he was one of them, <br>a traitor, a rebel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British killed a captured ill man, <br>that they came across in the veldt<br>without decency, or any military law being honoured.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They shot a Boer commandant through the heart<br>and without a funeral note, <br>they hurried, to get him buried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A brave man devoted<br>to his country, to his God, <br>whose burial place was not noted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Turning sod after sod<br>with spades, they dumped him<br>in a unmarked grave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the dead of night<br>without using light<br>they threw ground upon his chest, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">laid him to rest without any honour<br>and left him alone <br>without a marking stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[References: The rank of Commandant is equivalent to that of Lieutenant Colonel. The heroic story of Gideon Scheepers during the second Anglo-Boer war, who was captured while being ill in the veldt as a normal combatant, but treated like a rebel and shot by the British, who buried him in a unmarked hole in the ground.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397774" data-title="Commandant Gideon Scheepers de Gert Strydom" data-description="They tried to send him to hell, as if he was one of them, a traitor, a rebel. The British killed a captured ill man, that they came across in the veldt without decency, or any military law being honoured. They shot a Boer commandant through t..."></div> </div> </div>

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