05. Overview / Oorsig
contributed by: Dirk van Heerden
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Cemetery information:- Zonderwater outside Cullinan, 43kms from Pretoria, served as detention camp for Italian Prisoners of War during the Second World War. From April 1941 to January 1947 more than 100,000 Italian soldiers were captured by the British on the North and East Africa fronts and many were housed in this camp, now inside the grounds of the Zonderwater Prison. Permission was not granted to photograph the graves themselves but only the commemoration plaques.
Italian Military Ranks: Aviere - Airman Brig Capor - Corporal Capor Magg – Corporal Major Civile- Civilian Mar Capo – Chief Marshal Mar Ord – Ordinary Marshal Serg - Sergeant Sold – Soldier (Private) (Notes by the South East Witwatersrand Family History Society.)
Album incomplete, only the plaques were photographed, not the graves. (See note above)
Photographs by South East Witwatersrand Family History Society, Dirk van Heerden, Peter & Beverley Moss.
eGGSA captions by: SEWFHS, Riana le Roux, Johan Heyman, Fern Swales.
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the cemetery location. Cemetery ID: 5894 Google Earth Cemetery Initiative Information:- GPSID: 7061
GPS: -25 41.870, 28 32.507
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