Hi Norma here is the whole database for the camps All the best Elaine Subject: Re: [ZA-EC] Fwd: Boer War Port Elizabeth Concentration Camp - Nursestrained locally Hi, just jumping in on your thread here. Can anyone tell me where the Port Elizabeth camp was situated. Somewhere it states on the PE race course initially and then moved to higher ground, but can you advise exactly where and does anyone have any pics?? Norma On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Pat Frykberg via < south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> wrote: > both I think Pamela, because the more people who see your names and > interest, the more likelihood of it triggering another line of research or > knowledge! I still cannot find that nurse's name.! The one who was > working > on the Boer War Princess Alexandra Nurses.. It's there > somewhere...............! > Pat > > : <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [ZA-EC] Fwd: Boer War Port Elizabeth Concentration Camp - > Nursestrained locally > > > > > > >> Thank you, I will happily get back to you with my grandmother's > >> details. > >> Only question now is, should I email directly to you or via > >> south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com ? > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > -- Telephone Cell 072 590 2919 Telephone Land Line 033 330 6004 Fax 033 330 6005 Email norma.patrick8@gmail.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-CAPE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Pamela and Norma. The P.E. Concentration camp is not so easy to find, as very few people today know about its location. The Monument is hardly visible from the roadside, tugged away after the vibrocrete wall. To add to confusion, the entrance to the Mount Road Police Station today is in Lennox Street. The sports field is just opposite the charge office entrance. Name changing has taken place a few times. Before it used to be called John Browns Dam. It was also called Old Grey Sports ground and South African Police Sports Ground. Today it is also referred to as Freedom Park. This is where the tents used to be. John Browns Dam was not a built dam, but was so called because water accumulated there after rains. If you do not know about the concentration camp, you will not notice the monument.!!! In the early years, the whole area where the Green Acres Shopping Centre as well as part of the Town House complex are today, used to be the Race Course. Hence the name around the shopping centre is still bearing today....Ring Road and Ascot Road, as the horse racing took place around the ring. The area is slightly raised from the old tent area to the top. The Collegiate Girls School used to be situated off Whites Road. In later years it was rebuilt very close to the Green Acres Area. The nurses used to work at the Provincial Hospital, (which was originally situated on the Hill), but was educated at the Sharley Cribb Institution, close to St Georges Park. I shall only be able to go and take a photo for you after the middle of October, if you have patience till then. Hopefully someone can do it for you before then. Let me know if someone does it for you. Good luck. Trudie Marais