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- 2 PLAC Age: 66
"The time now is a quarter to one in the morning. Darling I do feel so happy. Can you believe that I could be happy in a POW camp?" - Arthur Garvie, Christmas 1944, Germany.
Arthur Garvie was born in 1910 to George and Rosa Garvie at Kensington shortly before the family moved to Kenya.
Arthur contracted an eye infection which compelled the family to return to South Africa.
During the depression years Arthur worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
He was an excellent tennis player.
He met Corrie KOCH in Vryheid.
During World War II he was taken POW with the Umvoti Mounted Rifles at the Fall of Tobruk.
His note book has survived.
After the war he managed a farm near Carolina.
He then worked on the mines at Bourkes Luck, Pilgrims Rest, Blyvooruitzicht and Glen Harmony.
Corrie wrote frequently for Afrikaans periodicals such as Huigenoot.
They retired in Klerksdorp where Arthur passed away.
It is interesting to note that Arthur Garvie died within a few days of the anniversaries of the deaths of Ebenezer and Rosa, his father and mother.
Reference: Garvie, C G (Ed.) 1989. The Stalag Notes of Arthur George Garvie. South Africa.
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, d. 19 Feb 1995, Klerksdorp