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Deelfontein Cemetery

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Location	:	Deelfontein, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, South Africa
Coordinate	:	-30.9962000, 23.7926700
Description	:	Deelfontein is a village in the Great Karoo, Northern Cape, region of South Africa on the route of the Pretoria to Cape Town railway. It primarily developed to service the railway due to its good water supply for steam locomotives, and is currently the location of a passing loop on the single-track line. In 1900 a British military field hospital, the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, was constructed for casualties from the Second Boer War. The location was chosen for its communications and dry climate, and its proximity to De Aar, then the centre of hostilities. Alfred Downing Fripp was Chief... Read More	Deelfontein is a village in the Great Karoo, Northern Cape, region of South Africa on the route of the Pretoria to Cape Town railway. It primarily developed to service the railway due to its good water supply for steam locomotives, and is currently the location of a passing loop on the single-track line. In 1900 a British military field hospital, the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, was constructed for casualties from the Second Boer War. The location was chosen for its communications and dry climate, and its proximity to De Aar, then the centre of hostilities. Alfred Downing Fripp was Chief Medical Officer. The hospital was unusual in pioneering the use of x-ray diagnosis. The surgeon-radiographer in charge, Major John Hall-Edwards, achieved eminence in this field, though he subsequently lost an arm through x-ray damage. The hospital, with a capacity for some 800 patients, largely comprised tents and prefabricated huts; at the cease of hostilities, materials from the latter were used for housing at Red Location, a township for Africans outside Port Elizabeth. Little remains of the complex except a cemetery with around 130 graves and the remains of the Yeomanry Hotel, built after the war to accommodate soldiers' relatives visiting the site.

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Latitude: -30.9962000
Longitude: 23.7926700

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1. Nonzwakazi Cemetery
De Aar, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, South Africa
Coordinate: -30.6724272, 24.0330700

2. De Aar Old Cemetery
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Coordinate: -30.6443700, 24.0172300

3. De Aar East Cemetery
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Coordinate: -30.6458300, 24.0292100

4. Caroluspoort Cemetery
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5. NG Kerk - Rickmond Kerkhof
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6. NG Kerk - Richmond New Cemetery
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7. Richmond Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.4183579, 23.9344954

8. Richmond Old Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.4170200, 23.9461100

9. Britstown Garden of Remembrance
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10. Burgerville Farm Cemetery
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11. Hanover Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.0731284, 24.4393225

12. NG Kerk - Hanover Kerhof
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Coordinate: -31.0665725, 24.4414123

13. Zinia Street Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.3952128, 23.1249305

14. Victoria West Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.3996046, 23.1194726

15. Voortrekker Street Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.4016527, 23.1180743

16. Victoria West Historical Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.4019246, 23.1160668

17. Cypherput Farm Cemetery
Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, South Africa
Coordinate: -30.6197200, 24.5441200

18. NG Kerk - Philipstown Begraafplaas
Philipstown, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, South Africa
Coordinate: -30.4357049, 24.4794399

19. Vosburg Old Public Cemetery
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Coordinate: -30.5696170, 22.8806000

20. Vosburg Dutch Reformed Cemetery
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Coordinate: -30.5686300, 22.8792300

21. Murraysburg Cemetery
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22. Jakaranda Street Cemetery
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23. Noupoort Old Cemetery
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Coordinate: -31.1864418, 24.9522526

24. Shadrick Street Cemetery
Noupoort, Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, South Africa
Coordinate: -31.1945300, 24.9559600

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