GRAND FATHERS OF KALLIE DE BEER

My grandfather, Karel Johannes De Beer and my mother's father, Petrus Cornelius Pelser visited us in Noordhoek, Bloemfontein during the nineteen sixties. They were both in their eighties, however, still strong at that time and enjoying life with their grand children. After their wives, Petronella and Maria respectively died earlier in their marriages, Oupa Karel stayed on in his house at Petrusburg while Oupa Pelser moved in with us. They both worked on the South African Railways construction workers on the railway tracks of the Orange Free State province before retirement. "Oupa" Pelser fought in the Anglo Boer War and was caught by the British troops and deported to Bermuda while "Oupa" Karel was interned as a young boy in a British concentration camp on Spitskop, next to Bloemfontein.