BOER POWs ON SAINT HELENA 🇸🇭 Boer prisoners arrived on the island of Saint Helena from 1900 to 1902 during the Second Anglo-Boer War, with the first contingent of 514 prisoners, including Boer General Piet Cronjé, landing on April 10, 1900, aboard the SS Milwaukee. The British sent these approximately 6,000 Boer prisoners of war to St. Helena to alleviate overcrowding in South African camps and to prevent them from rejoining the conflict. The prisoners were housed in two tented camps, Broad Bo