Hermann Gustav Thiel was elected as Line Captain of Line G even though he was only 22 years old at the time.
Hermann Gustav Thiel’s role in Boer Prisoner of War Management on Morgans Island, Bermuda
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A cartoon about the Anglo-Boer War
From the Memorial Album of Hermann Gustav Thiel. A cartoon about the Anglo-Boer War copied from Punch Almanack of 1902.
A map of the Bermuda Islands – drawn by Hermann Thiel
Hermann Thiel, the young German who ended up as a Boer Prisoner of War and living in a tent on a small, barren island in the Great Sound of the Bermuda archipelago, managed to get the equipment together to prepare an excellent hand-drawn map of the Bermuda islands.
Hermann Gustav Thiel’s records of his Anglo Boer War experiences before his capture
Hermann Gustav Thiel already showed his sympathy with the cause of the Transvaal Republic during the Jameson Raid in December 1895 and was involved as a technician in the building of Fort Klapperkop for the defence of Pretoria. For these actions the young German was granted citizenship with full voting rights of the Transvaal Republic on 21 January 1898.
Memorabilia preserved by Hermann Gustav Thiel
Memorabilia preserved by Hermann Gustav Thiel from his participation in the Anglo Boer War and his incarceration as a POW on Bermuda.
Correspondence of HG Thiel as a POW in Bermuda
In the diaries Hermann Thiel kept in Bermuda, he mentions how important letters from home were to all the prisoners. Delivery of mail was infrequent and often carried sad news about relatives who lost their lives in the war. Hermann wrote regularly in Dutch to his...
Voyage of the SS Montrose
An example of the meticulous records Hermann Gustav Thiel (1878 – 1948) kept in his diaries of his experiences during the Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1902) is the information he recorded on the voyage of the SS Montrose from Durban to Bermuda during August and September 1901. Not only did he describe the conditions under which the prisoners had to survive but he managed to record the exact daily position of the ship as well as the positions where 23 prisoners died and were buried at sea.