“IN CASE SOMEONE COMES SEARCHING...”
Julius Wronsky
was born on the 22 January 1889
at
"Mako
uwrskop"
;
district Wolmaranstad,
Tranvaal, Union of South Africa. His parents were
Fritz and Maria (
née
Li
e
benberg), Fritz and his
three brothers, Ludwig, Eric and
Wilhelm
emigrated from Prussia in the mid
-
to late 1800’s
arriving in the port of Cape Town. They were
“Russian Jews”.
Julius had 2 siblings,
Alice Elizabeth and William
Henry Wronsky.
Julius and William attended St.
Andrews college in Grahamstown in the
late
1800’s
–
early 1900’s.
After completing his
schooling, Julius studied to be a teacher at the
Normal College in Pretoria, South Africa. After teaching for a number of years, he
enlisted and was drafted into “C” company, South African Irish regiment on
the
5
October 1914.
(No. 260). During his time with the SA Irish, he was involved in
the German South West Africa Rebellion and the “S. A. H.”
(Highlanders?)
He
was discharged from that Regiment on 23 July 1915.
On the bottom of a pay
-
slip,
J
uliu
s
’s next
of kin was given as “
Miss A. Wronsky, Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, Cape C
