<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gideon Scheepers (Terzanelle)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To form a cairn, I write these words about a remarkable man, <br>commandant Gideon Scheepers, executed in gross neglect<br>who was seen by the British as a rebel and partisan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they treated him without any decency or respect<br>when in the veldt they captured an ill man as a prisoner of war.<br>Commandant Gideon Scheepers, executed in gross neglect</div><div style="margin:10px 0">proofed himself at the battle of Magersfontein before<br>gathering more men, blowing away train tracks, <br>when in the veldt they captured an ill man as a prisoner of war</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who acted against armed blacks<br>who stopped them from pillaging farms, raping, killing and looting, <br>gathering more men, blowing away train tracks, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the British executed him, with a firing squad shooting<br>a brave man, who acted fearless<br>who stopped them from pillaging farms, raping, killing and looting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they buried him in an unmarked grave, rather careless.<br>To form a cairn I write these words about a remarkable man, <br>a brave man, who acted fearless<br>who was seen by the British as a rebel and partisan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[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=398065" data-title="Gideon Scheepers (Terzanelle) de Gert Strydom" data-description="To form a cairn, I write these words about a remarkable man, commandant Gideon Scheepers, executed in gross neglect who was seen by the British as a rebel and partisan and they treated him without any decency or respect when in the veldt they ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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