Hi The following website could perhaps be of some help. http://www.francoforleo.co.za/Zonderwater.html Regards Niki Cronje (Jooste/Nell/Kitching/Gerber/Furstenburg/Smuts) On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Marielle Ford <marielle@intekom.co.za>wrote: > There is now a prison of this name in Gauteng. Not sure where exactly. > > Regards > Marielle > From: Pat Frykberg > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:45 PM > To: south-africa@rootsweb.com > Subject: WW 2 ZONDERWATER > > > Can anyone tell me about this place? My memory has snippets thus > It became a dispersal camp for the WAAS (Womens Auxiliary Army Service) > after VJ day August 1945. > We were billeted in a row of Victorian terrace houses. > The nearby train station was either Premier Mine or Cullinan. > Had these houses been part of the mine employees' houses? > Where in relation to this was the Italian POW camp? > Any information and reference to that part of the world would be more than > welcome. > Many thanks all. > > Patricia Frykberg > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Thank you Nick, and all the others who replied. I now have lots about the POWs . It was a super camp for those guys. I rmember there were two Italian POWs builders who on parole built the church in Nigel. What I now want is which part of Zonderwater/Premier Mine/Cullinan was the WAAS/WAAF dispersal camp after VJ day. I remember being housed in a series of terraced brick houses, mine houses I am sure. It was a huge camp Some several thousands or so women being there waiting for discharge from the army. It was separate from a men's camp, lots of swains waiting at the orderly room door and hundreds men and women packed 8 to a compartment going on weekend leave form the station, (called Z PM or C) changing at Germiston for East or West Rand. I have looked at maps but present day ones make it impossible to see what was where. Any clue how to research that topic? The dispersal camp part? Most gratefully received Patricia Frykberg -------------------------------------------------- From: "Niki Cronje" <nikiwkskin@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 6:22 PM To: "Marielle Ford" <marielle@intekom.co.za>; <south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com> Cc: <south-africa-l@rootsweb.com>; <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] [ZA-IB] WW 2 ZONDERWATER > Hi > > The following website could perhaps be of some help. > > http://www.francoforleo.co.za/Zonderwater.html > Regards > > Niki Cronje > (Jooste/Nell/Kitching/Gerber/Furstenburg/Smuts) > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Marielle Ford > <marielle@intekom.co.za>wrote: > >> There is now a prison of this name in Gauteng. Not sure where exactly. >> >> Regards >> Marielle >> From: Pat Frykberg >> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:45 PM >> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com >> Subject: WW 2 ZONDERWATER >> >> >> Can anyone tell me about this place? My memory has snippets thus >> It became a dispersal camp for the WAAS (Womens Auxiliary Army Service) >> after VJ day August 1945. >> We were billeted in a row of Victorian terrace houses. >> The nearby train station was either Premier Mine or Cullinan. >> Had these houses been part of the mine employees' houses? >> Where in relation to this was the Italian POW camp? >> Any information and reference to that part of the world would be more >> than >> welcome. >> Many thanks all. >> >> Patricia Frykberg >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3716 - Release Date: 06/20/11 >