klerck

Updated: June 23, 2025

In this fight at the Nek, Private Venables of the 58th, who was one of the prisoners taken by the Boers, owed his life to Commandant De Klerck, who intervened at a moment when several Boers had their guns pointed at the wounded soldier."

Henry H. S. Pearse - Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith