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Updated: May 6, 2025
These youths who accompanied the commando were known as the "Penkop Regiment" a regiment composed of school children and in their connection an amusing story has been current in the Boer country ever since the war of 1881, when large numbers of children less than fifteen years old went with their fathers to battle.
The story is that after the fight at Majuba Hill, while the peace negotiations were in progress, Sir Evelyn Wood, the Commander of the British forces, asked General Joubert to see the famous Penkop Regiment.
Sir Evelyn was sceptical for some time, and imagined that General Joubert was joking, but when it was explained to him that the youths really were the much-vaunted Penkop Regiment he advised them to return to their school-books. When a man has reached the age of sixty it may be assumed that he has outlived his usefulness as a soldier; but not so with the Boer.
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