Hendrik Prinsloo

Hendrik Frederik Prinsloo (10 May 1861 – 7 November 1900) was a Second Boer War commander of the Carolina Commando for the South African Republic who fought and prevailed at the Battle of Spion Kop (Afrikaans: Die slag van Spioenkop). His son and namesake Hendrik Frederik Prinsloo (1890–1966) served as an officer in the South African Army in both World War I and World War II.

Family Prinsloo was born in 1861 Kroonstad, Orange Free State, to Hendrik Frederik Prinsloo (12 May 1834, Albany, Cape Colony, South Africa - 20 March 1897, Marabastad, South African Republic) and Christina Johanna Sophia Dreyer (around 1837, Cape Colony - 4 March 1897, Marabastad) as the second son out of five sons among in total 10 children. He married Cecilia Maria Steyn (22 January 1865, Carolina, South Africa - 28 June 1910, Carolina, South Africa), a daughter of general Johannes Petrus Steyn (1833–1887), and had two daughters and three sons by her. Prinsloo's third child and first son was his namesake Hendrik Frederik Prinsloo (1890–1966).

Later he was killed in action together with general Joachim Christoffel Fourie by the British at Witkloof in the Battle of Leliefontein (Battle of Witkloof), district Carolina, on 7 November 1900. His burgher soldiers felt so dejected by the loss of Prinsloo that they did not pursue the fleeing enemy.