H.E.Engelbrecht one of the 5000 Boer prisoners of war brought to Sri Lanka by the British in 1900 and 1901.In 1902 a peace treaty was signed by the British in Pretoria and the prisoners were repatriated to South Africa on signing an oath of allegiance to King Edward the British monarch. All but five signed and were repatriated. Engelbrecht refused to sign and continued to live in Sri Lanka where he worked as a Game Warden. He died on the 25 th March 1928.and was buried in the Hambantota cemetery in South Sri Lanka. Interesting anecdotes on his life are
found in Leonard Woolfs Diaries in Ceylon 1908 to 1911, the Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union Vol XXXVI and XXXVII 1946/47, and a recent book by Prabath De Silva "Leonard Woolf as a Judge in Colonial Sri Lanka" 1996.

…2 Jacobus Engelbregt bp. Galle, December 1691

…2 Abraham Engelbregt bp. Galle, October 1693.