Western Cape, PRINCE ALBERT district, Reim Hoogte 167_3, Remhoogte, farm cemetery

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Cemetery information:- Album complete. eGGSA captions by: Annel Meyer The GGSA Cemetery DVD/ Cemetery Transcript Project only has information on the cemetery location. Cemetery ID: 1359 Google Earth Cemetery Initiative Information:- GPSID: 8959 GPS: -33 16.914, 22 24.630 Grave of Johannes Klue - member of the commando of Gideon Scheepers, who died on 2 Feb 1901 Gideon Scheepers entered the Cape Colony with Commandant P. H. Kritzinger's commando on 16 December 1900. He carried out his first attack 30 December, with the capture and burning of a train at Sherborne. 2 February 1901: Two patrols of the Mounted Troops of Prins Albert approach Klaarstroom after they had captured three Boer scouts. They enter Klaarstroom, not realising that this peaceful hamlet had been occupied by a large number of Boers the previous day. After unsuspectingly entering Klaarstroom the British left the town in quite a hurry with the Boers chasing after them. The Boers caught up with them near Remhoogte and a running battle ensued in ‘Die Gang’ a valley between Klaarstroom and Prince Albert. Strategically this was a superior position so the chase stopped and the British soldiers who managed to get over the pass got away. During the skirmish Lance Corporal J. Boyd, a tough Irishman who had lived in Australia, was critically wounded. He hid in Wolwekloof where Johannes Klue, one of the Boers, stumbled across him. Johannes Klue was shot in the chest at point blank range. He died shortly after on the farm Remhoogte and both Boyd and Klue were buried in Wolwekloof. Johannes Klue from Aberdeen was 22 years old. Another Englishman, Trooper SK Gishford of the 2nd Brabants, was also killed and eight British soldiers were taken prisoner by the Boers after their horses had been shot from under them. (source: https://www.saforums.co.za/rlt/index.php?topic=8254.5;wap2)