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).

[1][2][3][4] 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.

[2] At the outbreak of the Second Boer war in 1899, Prinsloo was a field cornet for one of the three wijken (sectors) of Carolina, South Africa.

[1] There he was sent in on 24 January 1900 by General Schalk Willem Burger to recapture the strategic hilltop Spionkop near the Tugela River occupied by the British.

"General Louis Botha sent promised reinforcement, and due to Boer artillery support from neighbouring hilltops and Prinsloo's initiative he prevailed over a superior British force.