Adolf Schiel (1858-1903) was an officer in the South African Republic's military forces during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902.Born in Frankfurt, Schiel was conscripted into the Prussian Army, serving as a cavalry trooper. He came to South Africa in 1878, settling in Natal. There, he took-up farming and was later appointed head of the prisons service. In 1898 he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel and charged with supervising construction of a fortress adjacent to Johannesburg Prison.
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