The poem “Long Tom” by Joubert Reitz is in the handwriting of Hermann Gustav Thiel and undersigned by the author on Morgans Island Bermuda in September 1901.
Poem lamenting the demise of the Long Tom Gun
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Destruction of the last Long Tom Gun
The largest guns acquired by the State Artillery of the Transvaal Republic were four French 155mm Creusot guns which were generally known as Long Toms.
A Day in the life of a Boer Prisoner of War
Hermann Gustav Thiel (1878 – 1948) was the only member of the Thiel family to take an active part in the Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1902). He kept diaries of his experiences and observations during the war in the Transvaal, the voyage to Bermuda and his stay on several of the islands in the Bermuda archipelago.
Visit of Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia to Palestine in November 1869
The highlight of Gustav Thiel’s 20 years in Palestine came at the end of their stay. The Prussian consul, Baron von Alten, asked Gustav to make all the arrangements for the visit of Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia to Palestine in November 1869. The Crown Prince was on his way to the reopening of the Suez Canal.