tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37445666331009935142024-03-10T09:40:30.507+11:00Digging the DustGems from the dust-heap of historyRegina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-22875574385625522552021-06-27T08:53:00.004+10:002021-06-28T07:56:12.605+10:00A Charming Count, Courts and Cannibals<br />While researching a Captain McNevin for my <a href="http://skelendipity.blogspot.com/2021/05/dead-mens-tales-3-james-kirkpatrick.html" target="_blank">Skelendipity</a> blog on family history, I came across a number of reports in American newspapers referencing him in a court case involving a Hungarian Count. The mud-slinging in the reports had me intrigued with both men accusing the other of deceit, fraud or bad behaviour. <br /><br />Further research of the newspapers found this Count cropping up in other sensationalist articles, including his two marriages to rich American women. He also wrote a couple of books about his travels in the South Pacific and his experiences with cannibals! I couldn’t pass up on finding out more about Count Rodolph Festetics de Tolna - and in the process discovered other intriguing characters. <br /><br />The dramas around Rodolph’s life exceed anything our modern royals and celebrities entertain us with and it is impossible to summarise this man’s extraordinary career in a few paragraphs. Much of the information on him including his travel books are only <a href="https://archive.org/details/chezlescannibal00tolngoog" target="_blank">available in French</a> or Hungarian, so my main source has been the English language newspapers and other blogs. There is also this book,<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eaten-Cannibals-Ron-S-Filion/dp/1499350481" target="_blank"> </a><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eaten-Cannibals-Ron-S-Filion/dp/1499350481" target="_blank">Eaten by Cannibals</a> </i>by Ron S Filion which may reveal more about the Count but likewise not readily accessible just for reference. <br /><br />Count Rodolph was born in France in 1865, into the aristocratic Hungarian family of Festetics. His early life was spent in Paris where he was a lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard and where he led a sophisticated Parisian lifestyle.<div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKXFxDuCcuk1iq4uLalKUYZnLPKIekNNqiGLZvrpv3vjv6c_-8RZRk7VhStNXxdWJytCsX7J8QhdHJSwvFVqejo1Nl20hAIk8NQqTJVXZbLKD-sgQhHbgb2HSz-ucST-ODm56o8l7xGEN/s1000/TheYoungCount.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="535" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKXFxDuCcuk1iq4uLalKUYZnLPKIekNNqiGLZvrpv3vjv6c_-8RZRk7VhStNXxdWJytCsX7J8QhdHJSwvFVqejo1Nl20hAIk8NQqTJVXZbLKD-sgQhHbgb2HSz-ucST-ODm56o8l7xGEN/w342-h640/TheYoungCount.jpeg" width="342" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The dashing Lieutenant<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br />Eila Butterworth Haggin, born in 1873, was the only child of Louis Haggin, the son of James Ben Ali Haggin, who had arrived in California at the time of the 1849 Gold Rush and amassed a huge fortune as an entrepreneur. The family mansion in San Francisco was the first to be built on Nob Hill, had 61 rooms and took up an entire city block, plus the family had other homes elsewhere, including France. It was while she was studying there that Eila met Rodolph at a ball. Three years later they were married in New York.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDUCLOT6aAEqd6WlUPZ1guU0cuYkyroaTvfrQ5zL5A1N1VDn2fvG46hRsfZsSgDxBMSzGpjP_fnnNNbltG6RHLjT3zsGry0rRpvIUtne_7HV3muLCqHwk0KvJEqu4709t9rNc0RMv6p71G/s1080/J-B-Haggins-Nob-Hill-Home.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1080" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDUCLOT6aAEqd6WlUPZ1guU0cuYkyroaTvfrQ5zL5A1N1VDn2fvG46hRsfZsSgDxBMSzGpjP_fnnNNbltG6RHLjT3zsGry0rRpvIUtne_7HV3muLCqHwk0KvJEqu4709t9rNc0RMv6p71G/w400-h323/J-B-Haggins-Nob-Hill-Home.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Haggin Mansion, Nob Hill<br /><a href="https://soundingsmag.net/2020/06/26/the-founding-of-the-haggin-museum-2/" target="_blank">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br />Rich American heiresses were much sought after by the often-impecunious members of European aristocracy at the time. Although it may have been a love match on the young Eila’s part - no doubt enhanced by continental panache, charm and the American weakness for titles - one can immediately detect opportunism on the Count’s part. His subsequent behaviour certainly bears that out. It was said that Eila’s parents “did not enthuse about the match”.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPpTLpSmN0nQfbHMjxdC0Fn7c_Fg2C3kVnG2ZPUKxC0Us6dIjM8VPObpqh6GwFPh3ChW8IoTDueocjh9cf8yV3AJaYpqO3rPAd_snzud9jBV2qAHan_KbuGuZUuolLxQapMMgAC7GhwzZS/s1630/YoungEila.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1630" data-original-width="1159" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPpTLpSmN0nQfbHMjxdC0Fn7c_Fg2C3kVnG2ZPUKxC0Us6dIjM8VPObpqh6GwFPh3ChW8IoTDueocjh9cf8yV3AJaYpqO3rPAd_snzud9jBV2qAHan_KbuGuZUuolLxQapMMgAC7GhwzZS/w285-h400/YoungEila.jpg" width="285" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The young Eila<br /><a href="https://www.recordnet.com/article/20150501/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150509965" target="_blank">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br />Soon after their marriage, they were in San Francisco where Rodolph began his plans for a leisurely exploration of the South Pacific financed by Haggin cash. The region had been much romanticised during this era by famous writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. Rodolph wanted to follow in their footsteps, make discoveries and write celebrated works of his own. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBT6MOT8famScyBNumdp5RLxD9RHTrftzPBw-sS1pVWViXbhmzi2rhgPrVig-WC5NBs8wYIyh42PxOS1mrSThdxlqGJwJoyp58sX1YzjnXdKxnUy57smSHZbFd4XGQCG1jKarEkWMlZk-/s869/The-Count-Countess-768x869+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBT6MOT8famScyBNumdp5RLxD9RHTrftzPBw-sS1pVWViXbhmzi2rhgPrVig-WC5NBs8wYIyh42PxOS1mrSThdxlqGJwJoyp58sX1YzjnXdKxnUy57smSHZbFd4XGQCG1jKarEkWMlZk-/s320/The-Count-Countess-768x869+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The newlywed Count and Countess<br /><a href="https://soundingsmag.net/2020/06/26/the-founding-of-the-haggin-museum-2/" target="_blank">Source</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>He decided to build a yacht that he would call <i>Tolna</i>. The process was protracted and Rodolph became embroiled in a range of litigious affairs that were much reported on in the Californian newspapers of the time. The American authorities were suspicious of the Count’s behaviour and his plans to captain the vessel. He did not have citizenship and was therefore not allowed to be master of a United States vessel and the <i>seventeen </i>court cases he was involved in (including those featuring Captain McNevin) did him no favours. <br /><br />As he was not permitted to be captain of the yacht in his own right, the Count found a loophole in appointing his new young wife as captain. Her marine qualifications, apart from being an American citizen, seem to be nil although Rodolph also found a way around this by recruiting a first officer, or mate, to actually be in charge of the vessel and he would give Eila some basic instructions.<br /><br />And here the story provides an even more extraordinary twist! <br /><br />He employed one John F. Wickmann [or Johan Friedrich Wichmann], a shady German-born character with a chequered past of his own, who used aliases and pretended to be from Virginia. One wonders if his maritime qualifications were equally as dubious. <br /><br />What is even more astonishing, Wickmann was destined to make his mark on history in the future as he turns out also to be Lieutenant Commander George Worley of the Naval Auxiliary Service who was in command of the coal carrier <i>USS Cyclops</i> that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918 with a loss of around 300 lives. (His career is worthy of another post, but he has already been written about at length, and this <a href="http://www.thequesterfiles.com/part_2--_a_passage_to_oblivion.html" target="_blank">blog reveals his shady background</a> and the connection to Rudolph.)<br /><br />And so this motley crew eventually embarked on their South Pacific adventure. Descriptions of this can be found in reading various newspapers reports in ports en route, such as Honolulu and Sydney. </div><div><br /></div><div>It seems remarkable that they survived the long and arduous journey across the Pacific in a frail craft, given what they faced. Not only had they to deal with perilous and inaccurate navigation through doldrums, typhoons and cyclones, they even experienced an earthquake while anchored. There were bites from a dog with rabies, a surplus of cockroaches, epidemics of smallpox in ports, and a rebellious or often-drunk crew who were also dealing in opium on the side. </div><div><br /></div><div>They also took up chewing betel nuts so that their ugly black teeth would put the cannibals they encountered off their intended lunch menu! Not to mention the risks associated with trying to get into Manila at the time of the Spanish-American War. And all this without mentioning the personal squabbles and sheer hatred that developed between the egotistical principals in this saga.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-U8fPJ3rSx21n5VyKWLVwSeltwQlzS2RLF3sNW8WMe_7xAA7Wo7rt9OzAnJG_ylG4YqfF24SdA5KxtZhKmaw-Rsf2yxQ8cxcXuyf6g2h0OrhkWffi-XaHGWiVv4P6ClquYNkwH4T2ed4V/s3022/InteriorTolna1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="3022" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-U8fPJ3rSx21n5VyKWLVwSeltwQlzS2RLF3sNW8WMe_7xAA7Wo7rt9OzAnJG_ylG4YqfF24SdA5KxtZhKmaw-Rsf2yxQ8cxcXuyf6g2h0OrhkWffi-XaHGWiVv4P6ClquYNkwH4T2ed4V/w640-h220/InteriorTolna1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tight quarters but lots of action<br /><a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br />Details of the voyage and the ensuing acrimonious divorce can be found via the <i><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/" target="_blank">Chronicling America</a></i> newspaper site, and are far too numerous or lengthy to reproduce here but make for entertaining reading for anyone keen to follow this hare-brained expedition and fated marriage in detail, although it is difficult to know how much of it is true or exaggerated for effect. At times, the reporters say the Count is French, Rumanian or Bulgarian, so accuracy is not high but there is such a hilarious absurdity to the whole thing. It feels like one of those old-fashioned comic operas or music hall melodramas, complete with dastardly deeds by (betel-stained?) teeth-gnashing, moustache-twirling villains, rapier-wielding Ruritanian princes and fainting maidens. <br /><br />At one stage, Rodolph, no saint himself, points his revolver at his perceived villain of the piece, shady first officer Wickmann who had been altering course and fiddling with the chronometer while plotting an evil secret plan to pirate the yacht, kidnap the Countess and blackmail her rich family.</div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8aaUM11PdirSC86ufnqHrpjpgBw1F9zbwpHBbK_pivE1bRDycwfLLoV7kR4L9tISvmwpQN9swcDf3VoT4uPp4rxSNeKvFVFE5A0Jr-V0IMg0zQUIvSUKu2k4uOhQahtzTIFsT4mBeNaPW/s359/CountwithGun.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8aaUM11PdirSC86ufnqHrpjpgBw1F9zbwpHBbK_pivE1bRDycwfLLoV7kR4L9tISvmwpQN9swcDf3VoT4uPp4rxSNeKvFVFE5A0Jr-V0IMg0zQUIvSUKu2k4uOhQahtzTIFsT4mBeNaPW/s320/CountwithGun.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our hero - the gun-toting Rodolph on the deck of <i>Tolna</i><br /><a href="http://www.jcbourdais.net/journal/05jui08.php" target="_blank">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br />One of those what-if quirks of history: it’s a pity that Rodolph didn’t pull the trigger or clap Wickmann in irons, but he let the man depart the vessel. Wickmann was later destined for a <a href="https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=587159" target="_blank">Purple Heart</a> - yes, believe it or not - and immortality in his guise of Worley. What is worse, we can probably blame his incompetence on starting the whole Bermuda Triangle nonsense.<br /><br />Eila would have gone through a baptism of fire as this was no honeymoon cruise. She’d had enough by the time they reached Singapore where she jumped ship and as soon as she managed to get back to California began divorce proceedings against Rodolph. It wasn’t just the horrors of the cruise itself, but it seems her husband had an unhealthy fascination with the nubile females of the Pacific and his own boastful writings showed an unhealthy preoccupation with lascivious references to free love or irregular multi-liaisons within families.<br /><br />In Rarotonga, the Count took photographs of the royal women and their ladies in waiting who “had more titles than clothes”. And in Fiji lots more photos of “… young ladies wearing nothing but microscopic leaf girdles … diversified by one Fiji belle wearing a girdle of human hair”. The wag reporter adds his own comment: “They are doubtless nice girls, but scarcely such as one would choose for pink teas.” An investigation of geisha girls of Japan also proved to be another interest that would have upset any young wife. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONPl0fALz_UyHVyaOiM5ZdRuNPtLKIdQNoPlF5qax5VKhG6vBb9cWVpfi1Kh7NaQYM_yiKNe-cIYECkz5BHP8vVWq38EwjcPhB1_e4Vna5wh9Z3uy1LCIBSZ_75FRlAa78ZrzJBgnUdUg/s385/TolnaFarmCoveSydney.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="385" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiONPl0fALz_UyHVyaOiM5ZdRuNPtLKIdQNoPlF5qax5VKhG6vBb9cWVpfi1Kh7NaQYM_yiKNe-cIYECkz5BHP8vVWq38EwjcPhB1_e4Vna5wh9Z3uy1LCIBSZ_75FRlAa78ZrzJBgnUdUg/w400-h300/TolnaFarmCoveSydney.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <i>Tolna</i> at Farm Cove, Sydney<br /><a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><br />After Eila's departure, the yacht <i>Tolna</i> continued to wander around exotic ports and islands before coming to a fiery end when she was wrecked on the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicoy" target="_blank">Minico</a>y off the coast of India. What exactly happened is a bit hazy but inaccurate navigation played its part. Maybe Eila was the better captain after all. <br /><br />Following the divorce, Rodolph did not disappear from the news and the courts. The crew of the <i>Tolna</i> tried to sue him for unpaid wages and he took out an action against a man who accused him of being a fortune-hunter preying on rich American women, but not before he'd first tried to settle the argument with a duel.<br /><br /></div><div>Surprisingly, you have to hand it to Rodolph that he wasn't going to let one failure get him down and in 1908 he married another American heiress, Alice Ney Wetherbee, the daughter of Gardner Wetherbee, famous for his New York hotels. Previously married herself to a Swiss man named Schopfer, and with a daughter, Anne, one would think a smart socialite in her thirties would be wise to Rodolph’s dubious charms, but maybe she was also capable of being swept off her feet.<br /><br />The couple hit the headlines again in the middle of World War I, when it seems they were wandering around the oceans of the world again, this time in a new yacht called <i>Thistle</i>. The vessel was seized by the French due to it flying an Austro-Hungarian flag. Rodolph tried to claim he was actually an American citizen (so why such a flag?) and alleged his citizenship papers had been destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but the French didn’t believe him and kept the vessel, valued at $200,000, until he could prove otherwise. I’ve been unable to establish whether it was ever restored to him.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a passport photo of the rather intimidating Alice. Her hat looks like it might have been inspired by the Austro-Hungarian military itself!</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGp6_GLmRlIDmU46LtlvrzdMiCtnia7WflppRvcR8xI6vYwsflfdWnNvJhjX5XvguRdzLdsOik-xdBezv5Q_0aX-b87dhHfSBwzeeMcc5AyvoIOv9txv13NSA0_oP1PbqV7HMDXzDyvtV/s253/AliceWetherbee.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="214" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGp6_GLmRlIDmU46LtlvrzdMiCtnia7WflppRvcR8xI6vYwsflfdWnNvJhjX5XvguRdzLdsOik-xdBezv5Q_0aX-b87dhHfSBwzeeMcc5AyvoIOv9txv13NSA0_oP1PbqV7HMDXzDyvtV/w338-h400/AliceWetherbee.png" width="338" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ancestry.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><div>Alice would send Rodolph packing as well but it seems she had a weakness for Hungarians and married another one, an artist Curt Szkessy in 1931. What happened to either of them is unknown and curiously the wayward Alice is missing from the Wetherbee family trees on Ancestry. Her daughter Anne also made the newspapers with her marriages, but that is another tale altogether.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile Rodolph's first wife, Eila, continued to use the surname of Festetics when she travelled abroad, judging from her passport application forms also to be found online. In 1924, she married Robert T McKee and together they were instrumental in establishing the <a href="https://hagginmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Haggin Museum </a>at Stockton, California. On her father's death, Eila inherited 10 million dollars that would have made her one of the richest women in America. She had no children.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyh9Z6P3MvZ2p9A7BqBI81F15VCQf57GVQPMIKkNRVhmsxsF_FITatWjhROhCmwZ9yEOA-5e35ETQX2g79lWOmTL6NAEgVoQOM63ARK6aygF2VwLoLlFQ8qbqjzvV6q-9Q28QSPH1SxuZz/s660/Eila-Haggin-McKee-and-Robert-T.-McKee.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="502" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyh9Z6P3MvZ2p9A7BqBI81F15VCQf57GVQPMIKkNRVhmsxsF_FITatWjhROhCmwZ9yEOA-5e35ETQX2g79lWOmTL6NAEgVoQOM63ARK6aygF2VwLoLlFQ8qbqjzvV6q-9Q28QSPH1SxuZz/s320/Eila-Haggin-McKee-and-Robert-T.-McKee.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eila with her second husband. <a href="https://hagginmuseum.org/exhibitions/fortunes-family-the-haggin-mckee-legacy/" target="_blank">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, what happened to the intrepid Count?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a rather sad report in a newspaper in 1925 in which Rodolph is again up before the courts unable to pay his doctor's bill, saying he had only $7 a week to live on. It seems he had been subsisting as a riding instructor but was injured in a fall. He gave his address as Kelly's Hotel, Brooklyn, which had recently been closed down to infringing prohibition laws.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 1930 US Census shows him living at 1064 E 14th Street, Brooklyn, with the occupation of Riding Master. His ancestry shown as French.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Given his propensity for making headlines wherever he went, it is not surprising that he just seems to fade from the limelight. Without his wives' fortunes, he could no longer plan grandiose cruises or afford to get involved in boastful and wasteful litigation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ironically, after all his battles to finally get American citizenship, he died where he was born, in Paris in 1952 and, as can be seen from this Embassy report of death, he had a common-law French wife, Andree Bonnevide, and was buried in her family's vault.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is typed on the back of the notice:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"The passport records of the Embassy indicate that Rudolf Count Festetics de Tolna was admitted to American citizenship by the Superior Court of the State of California at San Francisco on April 6, 1906. His naturalization was canceled and he was naturalized again before the District Count of the United States on January 16, 1934. No certification of naturalization was found with the decedent's effects in Paris</i>."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrFYdT4EByIDtqRkx5zLPFJPRwbjO4XzqK1SXMNmShi1QJewTKPzM79Q3hPDUamJvOZ9OmxeIRAP1GCqZeVRZvLDyp58QG-lIOKQxdWLpFCQ2l6n_xZ_8yr-QKaHYZ1YL-hCp5MJTg__zN/s2048/DeathRodolph.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1374" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrFYdT4EByIDtqRkx5zLPFJPRwbjO4XzqK1SXMNmShi1QJewTKPzM79Q3hPDUamJvOZ9OmxeIRAP1GCqZeVRZvLDyp58QG-lIOKQxdWLpFCQ2l6n_xZ_8yr-QKaHYZ1YL-hCp5MJTg__zN/w429-h640/DeathRodolph.jpg" width="429" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ancestry.com</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-align: center;">This cartoon accompanies articles that appeared in various American newspapers about the often disastrous marriages between heiresses and European aristocrats. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Source </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Chronicling America</a></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoajJmoz2oyGlRmojtnt3O5b7zQAYZ4n8o7Ofn-b-28Nxf7j3sSqJmlCs2ELc7_IaLUy4Hw1r7Au6sZzMHfI4HGwxlpjXaAgfx6jWef6GEjx_ZrC3gHWgGfFohAhku3f-AU4VH7LhZOc3/s612/HeiressandAristocrat.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="434" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoajJmoz2oyGlRmojtnt3O5b7zQAYZ4n8o7Ofn-b-28Nxf7j3sSqJmlCs2ELc7_IaLUy4Hw1r7Au6sZzMHfI4HGwxlpjXaAgfx6jWef6GEjx_ZrC3gHWgGfFohAhku3f-AU4VH7LhZOc3/w454-h640/HeiressandAristocrat.png" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"></blockquote></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-90001734392546016932020-06-02T11:08:00.002+10:002020-06-02T11:08:30.001+10:00The Ironbark Brig from Manning River<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Length 75 feet, breadth 19 feet 6-10ths, depth 12 feet, 143 tons.<br />This beautiful vessel was built in New South Wales, framed
throughout with iron bark, planked with flooded gum, each equal in durability
to East India teak; coppered and copper fastened; her sailing qualities are first
rate, her passage from Sydney 108 days; shifts without ballast, and is of an
easy draft of water.</b></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>For further particulars apply on board, in the Union Dock;
to<br />T. R. Robins, Hatton-garden, or to<br />D. TONGE, Broker, 7, Castle Street.</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I first encountered a reference to this ship when visiting
the <a href="https://museum.wales/swansea/" target="_blank">Swansea Maritime Museum</a> in Wales some years ago, where its name appeared in a list of local well-known 19th Century vessels in which many Swansea men had
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With time limited, I was unable to investigate further at
the museum but was intrigued as to its origins as I had previously researched the life and times of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Boyd" target="_blank">Benjamin Boyd</a>, an enterprising
scallywag who became infamous in Colonial Australia and who had fascinated me so
much that I made him the subject of my first novel.<b> *</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Naturally, I had wondered if the vessel was somehow connected
to him but with Boyd being a Scot, and with no known connections to Wales, I assumed it was just a coincidental name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remembered that visit to the museum when recently I stumbled on another reference to this vessel and with much more information now available via old newspapers on the Internet I
decided to see if I could find out more about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The “Triton” was the first brig of three built by master boat-builder John
Nicholson in 1844 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_River" target="_blank">Manning River</a>, New South Wales, where the town of
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Briefly owned by early Colonial mariner, Captain George Browning (a remarkable
character whose own hair-raising story of being kidnapped by escaped convicts
is worthy of another novel), it was then bought in Sydney by a Captain Tomkins, who
changed the name of the brig from </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Triton”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to “Benjamin Boyd”, after the prominent entrepreneur then at the height of his power and influence in New South Wales.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unidentified Australian two-masted brig, Hobart.<br />
Many similar coastal trading brig images at <a href="https://ehive.com/objects?accountId=3906&query=brig" target="_blank">Tasmanian Maritime Museum</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tomkins sailed the small brig to England with a cargo
of wool and other goods, but with an economic depression taking hold in the Colony (destined to be the ruin of Boyd) and perhaps debts owing
or due on Tomkins' own account, the vessel never returned to Sydney and was put up for sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apparently it was then re-registered with Bristol as its
home port and with registration <a href="http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/appropriation/7803" target="_blank">No. 7803</a>, beginning a long and busy career sailing back and forth around the British Isles, Europe and West Africa with various cargoes including timber and coal and it spent many years bringing imports of wine and spirits from Spain and Portugal to England.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was inevitable that the vessel would suffer wear and tear and several mishaps as a result of storms and the following sad report appeared in a Norwich newspaper in 1868 when its then master and part-owner, Samuel Nicholas, suffered such depression that he jumped
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the vessel must have been rescued and repaired as she
appeared again for sale in Bristol and passed into new hands periodically
during every decade that followed, with various owners in Glamorgan, Belfast, Wexford
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sturdy and reliable, the little two-masted ironbark brig “Benjamin Boyd”
criss-crossed the seas a remarkable 62 years from when
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her end came on 27 November 1906 when she collided off Penarth with a tramp steamer and her owner and master at the time was <a href="https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/actor:chidgey-thomas-18551926" target="_blank">Thomas Chidgey</a>, who was a
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Robert who was the Mate, and the other crew all escaped. The cargo and “Benjamin Boyd” was fully insured. Being of sound and reliable construction, throughout
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The vessel would have employed generations of sailors
during that time, many of them possibly from the same families. The <a href="http://www.swanseamariners.org.uk/" target="_blank">Swansea Mariners</a> project provides some of these names, including, to my surprise, a
Captain Jewell/Jewill from Clovelly, possibly a distant ancestor of my late
husband who is descended from Jewells in that area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It also may be that another of my husband’s ancestors, another seafarer, <a href="http://skelendipity.blogspot.com/2019/06/those-who-go-down-to-sea-in-ships.html" target="_blank">John Darch</a>, was familiar with the comings and goings of
the vessel having been a both a member of the Welsh Coastguard and a gateman on
the dock gates at West Bute Dock at the time when the sturdy little ironbark brig from
New South Wales finally ended her days, being salvaged and put up for auction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One has to wonder where all that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironbark" target="_blank">ironbark </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_grandis" target="_blank">flooded gum</a> wood went
after the vessel was stripped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps some was used to repair other vessels,
perhaps it went into building timber, floors or even pieces of furniture. It
could be that Australian timber pieces from the “Benjamin Boyd” still exist somewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what a fine testament to the quality of the workmanship and
skills of John Nicholson who built her so long ago on the banks of what was
then a remote Australian river. <b>#</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Barque<a href="https://midcoaststories.com/2018/08/the-great-race/" target="_blank"> "Fanny Fisher"</a>, the third vessel built by John Nicholson<br /> on the Manning River, NSW, in the 1840s and which also had a 60 year career</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* "<a href="https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1649552" target="_blank">Time and a Legend</a>" is currently out of print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">** Chidgey was born in 1855, eleven years after the “Benjamin Boyd” first started her career. There are a handful of his paintings to be seen online, but he is supposed to have painted hundreds and surely somewhere there is one of the “Benjamin Boyd”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">^ She was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eventually sunk by a U-boat during World War I with the loss of most of her crew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"># Sadly, John Nicholson <a href="https://midcoaststories.com/2020/04/death-john-nicholson-shipbuilder/" target="_blank">drowned accidentally</a> aged just 49. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Numerous reference sources include TROVE, British Newspaper Archive, Crew Lists UK, Boat Registers NSW, National Archives UK, Ancestry, FindmyPast, Manning Historical Society, ArtFind UK, Australian National Maritime Museum, Tasmanian and West Australian Maritime Museums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Apparently at t<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgans_Hotel,_Swansea" target="_blank">his Swansea hotel</a> you can stay in bedrooms named after well-known local ships, one of them being the “Benjamin Boyd”!)</span><br />
<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-78250645882093582142020-03-22T12:52:00.000+11:002020-03-22T13:00:12.536+11:00Taking the waters<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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ancestors were no strangers to doing the same in order to avoid a range of plagues and illnesses that
swept through their communities on a regular basis. To try and combat them, all
manner of cures and preventative measures came in and out of fashion, many
based in superstition and fear, others were exploitative “quackery”, but some had merit and still have their supporters today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since ancient times, there have always been those who believed in the remedy to “take the waters” at mineral springs or spas. (The English
town of Bath being one of the most famous examples.) The Victorians and
Edwardians were particularly keen to try and avoid the threats from diseases and pollution in their congested towns and cities. One such
establishment that flourished from the mid-1800s to early 1900s is just a few
minutes’ drive from where I live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It once stood on the shores of Corio Bay near
Geelong and was the Clifton Springs mineral springs and spa
complex. At its height it was serviced by regular ferry services around Port
Phillip Bay from the city of Melbourne and holiday-makers, the ill or infirm
would flock to take advantage of the supposedly health-giving properties of the mineral spring water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although almost no sign of them remain today, there were originally
at least seven springs emerging from the cliffs along the shore of the bay.
These were concentrated in just a fifty metre stretch of beach known as “The
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in 1854 and by the 1870s the site consisted of a commercial bottling facility, kiosk,
bath house and pumping station. Overlooking all this activity was a magnificent hotel offering every luxury and, by 1880, the bottling company was
selling 5,000 bottles of the spring water annually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately by the mid-1920s, the once health-giving
springs had become polluted and were more likely to make you ill than well and
the whole complex was forced to close. The original hotel burnt down in 1921 and all the other Victorian era buildings had disappeared
by 1925.</span></div>
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remains to be found of the bottling and pumping activities, bits of bottles or ceramics and old metal
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where the elegant hotel once stood is the rather blah mid-20th Century
<a href="http://cliftonspringsgolfclub.com.au/gallery/" target="_blank">Clifton Springs Golf Club </a>building, although it is worth visiting the bistro just for the view. Plus a sprint up and down the steep incline or steps to The Dell is today’s
way of keeping fit!</span></div>
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-37839426104714879272020-02-01T19:05:00.001+11:002020-03-22T13:01:14.817+11:00"Like pearls on velvet" - the Russian Irishman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John Field is a name that may be unfamiliar to many music lovers, but he deserves to be rediscovered and played more widely. He is credited with being the inventor of the nocturne, although it is Frederic Chopin who is now most closely associated with the form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I happened to first hear one of Field’s nocturnes on a classical broadcast some years ago and was instantly drawn to the music. When I discovered the composer was an Irishman who had his greatest success in early 19th Century Russia, it seemed to fit perfectly with what I was listening to; the lyrical echo of an Irish soul combined with that Russian love of melancholy romanticism. <br /><br />Like Mozart, Field was a child prodigy. He was born in Dublin in 1782, the son of a theatrical violinist. He received his early musical education from his grandfather who was an organist, and later from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Giordani" target="_blank">Tommaso Giordani.</a><br /><br />At the age of ten, John Field made his first public appearance in Dublin. The family then moved to England spending time between London and Bath. John served an apprenticeship with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzio_Clementi" target="_blank">Muzio Clementi</a> while working part time as a piano salesman.<br /><br />While still a boy, he appeared at Covent Garden and other London theatres. He first performed his own piano concerto at the King’s Theatre in 1799 to mixed reviews, although one observer considered him to be “one of the finest performers in this kingdom”.<br /><br />Even after he had served his apprenticeship, John remained somewhat subservient to Clementi and travelled with him throughout Europe. After the pair had been in St. Petersburg during 1803, Clementi left but Field stayed behind and through patronage of one General Marklovsky, he finally came into his own. His music became fashionable in the music salons and he was in demand as a private teacher. In 1806 he made his debut in Moscow. His entry in the ODB says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />There is an echo here of the future Franz Lizst in John Field at this time; adored by the ladies, dodging his way in and out of romantic escapades. His biographer offers us this description that with the dominating Clementi out of the way he emerges into the light as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />He dressed well and had a fashionable address, with his own carriage, attended all the parties, smoked Havana cigars, imbibed too much champagne and indulged in frivolities and gossip. He was overly generous with money, spending it as soon as he earned it.<br /><br />Field’s enjoyment of the social life conflicted with his composing. Like many a genius, he could be erratic, lazy and even undisciplined at times and then overcome with the urgent compulsion to create. A friend later recalled that he would always need one glass of alcohol to get him started, then he would abstain but write music in a frenzy all night and throw the sheets all over the room, to be collected by others to put into order. He’d then collapse at three or four in the morning, only to be revived later with endless cups of coffee. After a bout of creation, he could be in a dishevelled and low mood when people would be forced to tiptoe around and not disturb him.</span><br />
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<br /><br />In 1810, Field married Adelaide Victoria Percheron, born in Pondicherry, India, and daughter of the war commissioner of the French fleet. She was one of his Moscow pupils and had been his mistress since 1807. The marriage was not a success, she was flightly and both of them tended to excesses, idleness and were hopeless with money, and Field really needed a more restrained woman to counterbalance his temperament. They had a son, Adrien, in 1819, before separating. Adrien also became a pianist but alcoholism cut short his career.<br /><br />Field had another son, Leon, with a Mlle Charpentier, who was born in 1815. Leon later became an opera singer and teacher known as Leo Ivanovich Leonov. His child, Field’s grandson was Alexander Charpentier, who became an opera singer and his child in turn, Elizabeth Alexandrovna Charpentier, was a ballerina in the Imperial Troupe and danced internationally with the famous Anna Pavlova.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />As a composer, Field often struggled with his alcoholism and ill health (cancer) as well as his erratic tendencies, so his repertoire is not as great as it might have been. After a trip to England in 1832 with his son Leon, where he gave concerts, had a last reunion with his mother and also sought out medical attention, he returned to Russia via various European cities, but his declining health meant his performances were not particularly successful and this heralded his future descent into obscurity.<br /><br />John Field died in Moscow in 1837 and is buried in the Vedensky Cemetery.</span><br />
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<br /><br />Field’s style of piano music has been overshadowed by his more famous successors such as Liszt and Chopin. This is what one of his students, the “father of Russian classical music”, Mikhail Glinka had to say of him: </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I clearly remember his energetic and at the same time sophisticated and precise performance. It seemed to me that he did not even press the keys, his fingers simply fell on them like raindrops, glided like pearls on velvet. Neither I nor any true admirer of musical art can agree with Liszt, who once said that Field played sluggishly. Not. Field’s play has always been bold, erratic and diverse; he never mutilated art like a charlatan, as very popular pianists often do.</span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many musicians have recorded John Field, but in my opinion the best interpretation is that by his fellow countryman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/John-Field-15-Nocturnes/dp/B000003CVP" target="_blank">John O’Conor</a>, who somehow captures that unique Irish/Russian essence the best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But long before this - and like Charles Webster a few years later - see Excursions into the Petty Sessions <b><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2019/07/excursions-through-petty-sessions.html" target="_blank">Blog 1</a></b>
and <b><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-dreadful-occurrence-excursions-into.html" target="_blank">Blog 2</a> </b>- in 1858 Charles Hardy was forced to defend himself against a charge of manslaughter: in
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due to rough instrumental handling in the birthing process, which is truly horrific for us to imagine today. The
case was reported in much detail in the local newspapers and it comes with a warning
that it is a particularly graphic retelling of what women had to endure in the
mid-19th Century Gold Rush era in what were often very primitive conditions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if Hardy was a respected physician in the district - and with the excuse he was suffering from an illness at the time - it is still difficult to read the paragraphs in which Bridget was treated appallingly and virtually abandoned while Hardy and other doctors argued about their fees and she screamed out in pain that she was being murdered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hardy said his fee was 5 guineas, or around £500 or A$1,000 today, and even more and up to £25 (about A$5,000) if he was expected to stay, according to evidence given by the husband and mother-in-law of Bridget Noonan. It is doubtful that any husband or partner of a woman giving birth in a tent on the diggings at Sandy Creek would have had this kind of money readily to hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hardy never had to face trial as the Attorney-General quashed the case. One can think what one likes about this, but Bridget Noonan never stood a chance when left to the mercy of money-grubbing doctors, class distinction or prejudice against poor (Irish?) people, not to mention the accused doctor probably having friends in higher places ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. Hardy's Case. — We are authorised in stating that the Attorney-General has refused to file a bill against this gentleman in accordance with the verdict of the jury in the case of Bridget Noonan, and it will not therefore come on for trial. Official intimation of the fact reached Castlemaine yesterday, and the witnesses either have, or will have within a day or so, notice that they need not attend the next Circuit Court at Castlemaine where this trial would have taken place.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tarrangower Times.</i></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rather than reproducing the full gory details of the case here, please read the newspaper re<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ports in TROVE:-</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interestingly, this second report contains additional evidence given by family members, John Noonan and his mother, which is not included in <i>The Argus</i> story, about the money being demanded and the terrible condition of poor Bridget who in her agony screamed that Hardy was murdering her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I beg to solicit your Vote and Interest for the appointment as Honorary Physican to the Lying-in-Hospital.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I trust that my long connection with the Rotunda Lying-in-Hospital, Dublin, under my brother, the late Dr. Hardy during his residence there, as Assistant Master, as well as my large and successful practice in this particular branch of the profession will gain me your confidence and support.</span></b></span></div>
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ELECTION DAY</div>
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MONDAY 7th DECEMBER</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And this describes his appearance before</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the Select Committee on Vaccination</span></div>
<b><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226058351?searchTerm=Charles%20Henry%20Hardy&searchLimits=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Hamilton Spectator</i> 11 February 1882</span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Hardy died aged 54 in 1883, he had lived at 190 East Collins Street, Melbourne. Given his dismissive attitude towards one poor woman in distress who died as a result of his action/inaction, it may seem rather ironic that his name appears as honorary surgeon for various charities looking after the lower classes such as Committee for the Refuge for Fallen Women and the Benevolent Asylum. One wonders if he ever remembered how he had failed Bridget Noonan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Extract from the <i>Victorian Police Gazette </i>in June 1879, on appointment of Hardy as Public Vaccinator for Melbourne:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hardy's Will and Probate of his estate are available to read online through the Public Record Office of Victoria or Find My Past, and they give full details of all his belongings including his surgical instruments, furniture, carriages, horses, etc., also his debts, right down to the butcher's bill. His house was mortgaged and the results of his estate would have been modest. In his Will, he requested that there no "black crape" or "bonnet" be worn on his account. He even made the news again regarding it.</span></div>
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-44487519029401974902019-08-17T19:14:00.002+10:002019-08-17T19:21:21.898+10:00A Dreadful Occurrence (Excursions into the Petty Sessions Part 2)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Continuing with the findings on Charles Webster (<a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2019/07/excursions-through-petty-sessions.html" target="_blank"><b>click here for first part</b></a>). In 1862 he was fined 2/6 for having
an unregistered dog and then was the subject of several entries until 1866 in the Victoria Petty Sessions for Maldon.</span></span></div>
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local district became a borough in 1863 and residents were subjected to increased rates or taxes as the next time Charles pops up is with a number of people appealing against these charges. Some were upheld, others dismissed or reduced. Charles’ brother T.B (Thomas Brown)
Webster is also shown with his charge being “struck out” whereas Charles’
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The following year 1864, Charles was defending himself against someone with the surname of
Reynolds who accused him of: “</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assuming the title of medical
practitioner</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">”. The case was dismissed, but it suggests that the chemist/druggist
Charles may have had ideas above his station and someone called him to account although the person officiating decided it was too trivial to bother about and it was dismissed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Early
in February 1866, an Alessandro Rainoni accused Charles Webster of Assault - in what manner is not revealed - but
the case was also dismissed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Charles
Webster shot dead one Frank (or Francis) Silverwood, a local Miner, at the rear of his premises in High Street, Maldon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Silverwood had gone to the rear of Charles</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">’</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> premises around 10 pm,
possibly to see either him or Charles’ partner, Dr. Craig, about a medical matter. Apparently Charles had attended Silverwood and his wife Alice previously when a child of theirs was ill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems that there had been earlier mystery disturbances at night behind Webster</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">s house when suspicious individuals (allegedly “Chinamen”) were thought to be after the fowls and Charles had primed a double-barrelled shotgun ready to scare them off should they return. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Charles stated that he heard the prowler, went outside, but it was too dark to see. He called out “Who’s That?” and when he had no
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“<i>Alas!
the chance shot proved a deadly aim. Lights were produced, and the dead body of
Mr Frank Silverwood found; the charge had penetrated like a bullet into or just
under the left temple … Mr Webster placed himself in the hands of the police until the inquest
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the trial on 9 October, the Crown Prosecutor discussed the gravity of the charge, the differences between murder with intent and manslaughter, and also asked the obvious question why
Charles didn’t use a safer method if he just wanted to alarm the intruder, i.e.
load the gun with powder but not shot [or aim high perhaps?]. It was also puzzling as to why Silverwood did not answer when Charles called out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The judge decided that the case was manslaughter, and the Defence convinced the jury that it was an unfortunate accident, that Charles was filled with remorse. He was acquitted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interestingly,
on 12 October 1866, Charles was again up in the Petty Sessions, this time as the Complainant against another Assault on him
by <i>Mrs.</i> Craig - was she connected to the same Dr.
Craig who was his partner at the time of the shooting of Frank Silverwood? Why was Mrs. Craig angry? What
form did the “assault” take? Verbal or physical? Unfortunately the questions
remain forever unanswered as the Petty Session Register does not show any resolution,
simply the signature of the person who chaired the session.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Frank Silverwood was well-known and respected in the community and left a widow and two daughters, Margaret, 12, and Mary Embley, 2, there could have been repercussions; perhaps some did
not agree with the verdict or had suspicions as to what really happened. The original Letters of Administration granted to Alice Silverwood can be read via Ancestry but the trail on her and her daughters goes cold. <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">***</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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occurrence”, the Petty Sessions records do provide some evidence that he may have had
a short fuse, possibly was inclined to drink, as were many men in that area, or maybe he took some of his own weird drugs to relieve his state of mind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>TO LEGALLY-QUALIFIED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS - WANTED - </b>Immediately, a legally-qualified Medical Man to take a practice which has been carried on successfully for the last six years by the advertiser, who is compelled to relinquish the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reality is, not being a qualified doctor one can attribute more than a degree of quackery to Charles and his name was in the newspapers again at the
end of the year in connection with a case with the lurid title of “<i><b>Death of a
Lunatic at the Gaol</b></i>”. Read the full report on <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197545779?searchTerm=death%20of%20a%20lunatic%20at%20the%20gaol&searchLimits=" target="_blank">TROVE here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Williams, 32, seems to have suffered some sort of hysterical episodes for no
apparent reason which involved fights with a neighbour, leaving her husband and
dumping her clothes in the street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her husband took her to Charles who kept giving
her some unnamed pills that knocked her out, then another doctor was called who
“<i>ordered her hair to be cut and mustard plasters applied to her legs</i>”. Hannah “<i>before her excitement</i>” complained
about a man trying to take advantage of her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“<i>Charles
Webster, practising as a medical man at Maldon, but not legally qualified,
visited the deceased at the request of Mr. Williams. He found her in a state of
great excitement, which arose in his opinion from functional disease [</i>constipation?<i>]. He
gave her one drop of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/croton-oil" target="_blank">Croton oil</a> [</i>a highly toxic purgative<i>] which did not act; on
Sunday morning she was still more excited and he gave her some saline
purgative, consisting of tartrate of soda, which operated [</i>worked<i>].</i>”</span></span></blockquote>
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was followed by more visits by other doctors and poor Hannah wound up in a
strait jacket in Castlemaine Gaol, hardly the place for someone suffering
“<i>acute mania</i>”. It was intended she be removed to the Yarra Bend Asylum but she
died before this could be done. A Dr. McGrath opened her up and “</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">found great
congestion of the brain and its membranes; there was no organic disease of the
brain itself</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.” </span></span></div>
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gaol when they should rightly be in the asylum, but one can’t help wondering if
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Webster visiting the farm Tregaminion Wollas which is right on the tip of Cornwall
at Landewednack. He gives his occupation as “</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Surgeon, University of Glasgow</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”. His age
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-43252928238308014242019-07-31T10:21:00.002+10:002019-07-31T10:59:06.545+10:00Excursions through the Petty Sessions. (Introduction)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />For anyone with an interest in the social history of a specific time, place and/or individuals, one of the best resources available can be records of the Petty Sessions.<br /><br />The Courts of Petty Sessions were local to a district and usually overseen by a justice of the peace or magistrate. Originating in England in the early 1700s, they dealt with minor matters such as theft or larceny, assaults, drunkenness, debts, licensing, deception or defamation and even allegations of illegitimacy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />Within those records, there are often shocks and surprises for those who are researching their ancestors. For historians, there is much intimate detail that can be revealed about what was going in a certain society at a particular time. There are rules, regulations and fines that today may seem to us onerous or unjust. The foibles and personal lives of individuals are made public, whether to do with debt, drunkenness or assault. Often, the magistrate makes arbitrary comments on failures in moral standards. But it is the glimpses into the gossip, jealousy and squabbling that was, and still is, common to small communities that can be the most fascinating.<br /><br />A browse of the entries from the mid-19th Century collection, Victoria Petty Sessions for<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldon,_Victoria"> </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldon,_Victoria" target="_blank">Maldon </a>(Australia), has led me to investigate some individuals in more depth and with intriguing results, and this will be the first in a series of posts generated by some such cases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Here is a snapshot of a single page of the Petty Sessions listing the issues heard at Maldon between 28 November and 9 December 1862:-<br /><br /><u>Assaults</u>. Various outcomes. Fines between 5/- and 10/- (five and ten shillings) or the option of 12 hours of hard labour or 24 hours in prison. Perhaps some of the defendants had little money and opted for prison or hard labour.<br /><br /><u>Damage</u>. Not specified what was done, but stated to be £2.12s.0d. (two pounds twelve shillings). No result as the defendant was remanded until another day.<br /><br /><u>Debts</u>. Various. In one case a debt of £6.18s.7½d (Six pounds eighteen shillings seven pence halfpenny) was resolved by the defendant agreeing to pay off the debt at 7/6 (seven shillings and six pence) per week. <br /><br /><u>Theft</u>. “<b><i>Illegal detention of a tent and seven goats, value £8</i></b>”. Defendant to repay.<br /><br /><u>Animals.</u> These disputes can get quite complicated. They include the following:<br /><br />For “<i><b>killing a goat worth 10/-</b></i>,” the defendant agreed to pay plus costs.<br /><br />Three men were charged with “<i><b>Permitting horse/s to wander on the public street</b></i>” each fined 5/-.<br /><br />Four men were charged with “<i><b>Keeping unregistered dog/s</b></i>” and fined. <br /><br />Of the latter, two were well-known businessmen in the town of Maldon, Charles Webster, a Chemist, and <b><a href="https://museumsandcollections.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/1378959/07_McArthur.pdf" target="_blank">George McArthur,</a></b> a Baker. They are entered consecutively in the Petty Sessions and likewise they have adjacent advertisements on a page from the 1864 directory as shown below.<br /><br />George McArthur and Charles Webster both had to cough up 2/6 (two shillings and sixpence) for having unregistered dogs. In the remarks column, it seems Charles did not follow up the fine by registering his dog, although George subsequently did. Is this is a subtle clue as to a difference in character; George perhaps more willing to be seen to do the right thing and have it recorded? <br /><br />The two men pop elsewhere in the Petty Sessions for a variety of reasons. George McArthur left a lasting and mostly positive legacy in Maldon but within two years Charles Webster would be facing the death penalty when he was indicted for <i>murder</i>!<br /><br />More on that in the next post ...</span><br />
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Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-3134714418124465832019-04-28T16:19:00.001+10:002019-04-28T16:20:42.250+10:00Twin blows and the end of the line. (The Greys of Falldon, Part III)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />(Continues on from previous blogs about the Greys of Fallodon. <b><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-young-lady-and-her-book-greys-of.html" target="_blank">Part I</a>, <a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2019/03/edward-and-george-greys-of-fallodon.html" target="_blank">Part II</a></b>) <br /><br />1928 was a bad year for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon" target="_blank">Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon</a>, as he suffered two close personal tragedies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(In 1914, he had lost a second brother and the heir presumptive to the title, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alexander Harry Grey, who died without issue aged 44, after years of service in the West Indies as Vicar of St Jude's, Arima, Trinidad. There is little on record about him and some sources suggest that he had suffered a form of brain damage after being hit by a cricket ball as a child.)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />Then, on 28 September 1928, his last surviving brother, Charles Grey, was fatally wounded in a similar fashion to that of George Grey in 1911: in Africa by a wild animal. This time it was a buffalo rather than a lion and the incident took place in Tanganyika, and he died at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabora" target="_blank">Tabora</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The African buffalo is one of the most dangerous animals in the world, often called </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the widow-maker</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Its weight, strength and speed has been the undoing of many a hunter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like his brother George, Charles Grey had had an adventurous career in Africa. He accompanied George in the exploration and development of the copper fields of Katanga but often travelled independently with his own boats and native carriers while exploring the lesser-known regions. <br /><br />He was also a keen long distance cyclist (see Part II on George Grey). According to a correspondent in <i>The Times</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>“… On hearing the news of the outbreak of war in August, 1914, Mr Grey rode 500 miles on an ordinary bicycle to reach the nearest place where he could get into the fighting. He joined a company of the King’s African Rifles in East Africa as a lieutenant. Shortly afterwards, in an engagement against a very superior force of Germans, he was severely wounded in the left hand and forearm. Only first aid was available, and Mr Grey had to walk 22 miles to Kisumu, the nearest place where he could obtain surgical treatment. There his arm was amputated 6 in. below the shoulder, and when he had sufficiently recovered he returned to England, where he underwent two further operations. In the following year he went back to Africa and joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Northey_(British_Army_officer)" target="_blank">General Northey</a>’s army, serving under him on the Intelligence Staff till the end of the War, being mentioned in dispatches and receiving the Military Cross. He became an expert shot with a rifle, in spite of the loss of his arm, and his death was the result of injuries that he received from a wounded buffalo while he was hunting in Tanganyika, accompanied only by four of his native servants. He was man of singular integrity, courage, and charm, and greatly beloved by every one who knew him.” [<i>The Berwick Advertiser</i> 4 October 1928.]</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As with the real story of George Grey (see Part II), there is much about Charles Grey and his exploits in Africa that are unknown today. A book called<i> <a href="https://archive.org/details/adventuresinafri00thor/page/62" target="_blank">Adventures in Africa Under the British, Belgian and Portuguese Flags</a></i> by John B. Thornhill is one of the few sources on this elusive character and it describes how, while he was manager of the Tin Belt in Katanga and with the help of another white man and a group of their servants, Charles confronted and killed around twelve marauding slave traders. Although having only one arm, it </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was due to his fluency in Swahili that he was made an intelligence officer during the WW1 <a href="http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/389101.html" target="_blank">East African Campaign</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few weeks after Charles died, on 18 November 1928, while residing at her country estate in Wiltshire, the second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Wyndham" target="_blank">Lady Grey, the former Pamela Wyndham,</a> became acutely ill (with what exactly is difficult to establish) and in spite of emergency attendance by a doctor was dead within hours. She was 57.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lord Edward Grey was away at Fallodon in Northumberland and had to make an emergency dash to be at her side. This involved stopping the overnight Edinburgh-London express to pick him up. He was a director of the LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) at the time and had his own private railway station. Apparently he boarded the train at 10 pm without even bothering to pack. Early in the morning of 19 November, Pamela’s son, Lord Glenconner, met his stepfather in London with the sad news that he was too late. <br /><br />Lady Grey was a popular figure in high society and widely mourned. A writer of prose, poetry, memoirs and children’s books, she had taken a particular interest in spiritualism following the death of her eldest son from her first marriage, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wyndham_Tennant" target="_blank">Edward Wyndham Tennant</a>, during the Battle of the Somme. <br /><br />Her book on the subject <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/earthenvesselvol00glenuoft/page/n7" target="_blank">The Earthen Vessel</a></i> deals with “book tests”, in which the departed sent their messages via a medium and directed the living individuals to messages contained in extracts from various books. The medium in this case was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Osborne_Leonard" target="_blank">Gladys Leonard</a>, who chanelled an Indian woman called Feda. Mrs Leonard could not possibly have had intimate knowledge of all the specific libraries Feda mentioned, let alone the books contained in them, and so was merely the conduit for the messages from “the other side”. Mrs Leonard seems to have been discredited eventually, but Lady Grey was convinced by them and the book tests in <i>The Earthern Vessel</i> do make for interesting reading as to unexplained coincidences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />With the death of Charles Grey, the baronetcy passed to the line of an elderly cousin and thus the male descendancy from <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-young-lady-and-her-book-greys-of.html" target="_blank">Anna Sophia Ryder</a>, the owner of the little book in my possession that initially inspired this research into the Greys of Fallodon, came to an end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Anna and her
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon" target="_blank">Sir Edward Grey </a></b>(1862-1933) is perhaps the most famous member of the family. In 1914, he was Britain’s Foreign
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">It is said that
after giving his speech, he returned to his desk in the Foreign Office, working
until evening. It was then he looked out his window to see the gas lamps being
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James Park in his darkest moments also reflected another aspect of his
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">He had a desultory education at Winchester and at Oxford, where he preferred sports and was described as a ... <i>distinguished tennis player but little else .... </i>Edward was eventually sent down from Balliol College for <i>idleness ... having shown himself entirely ignorant of the work set him. </i>(See <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Edwards-Foreign-Secretary-Fomented/dp/1634241746" target="_blank">The Two Edwards</a></i> by Peter Hof)<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The cynic might suggest that one of the few options open to academic failure would be a shot at politics, but Edward found his calling and would become a much-esteemed statesman. Elected as the youngest member of the House of Commons in 1885 (age 23), he then embarked on a curiously chaste marriage with Frances Dorothy Widdrington, who apparently refused to have anything to do with the physical side of things. Presumably the marriage was sustained by a common interest in nature, such as bird-watching and hiking the moors. It was very likely that the young and wealthy Edward would have had no trouble finding consolation with more accommodating ladies. He is believed to have had at least two illegitimate children, one of whom was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Evelyn_James_Coats" target="_blank">socialite Audrey Coats</a>. After Dorothy died in a road accident, Edward married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Wyndham" target="_blank">Pamela Wyndham</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Considerable newsprint space at the time focussed, often in detail, on the name-dropping hunting expedition that resulted in the incident at the Athi River in Kenya on property belonging to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Pease,_1st_Baronet" target="_blank">Sir Arthur Pease</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">From those newspaper reports - and combined with modern-day perceptions about the sort of people who indulge in big-game hunting - on first appearances it is all too easy to assume that George Grey was just another indolent upper-crust Englishman only interested in killing animals for sport. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">None of those obituary columns give much detail about George's earlier years in Africa and all that he accomplished in the way of military exploits, prospecting, and administration. To tell his story in detail would require a full-length biography that no-one has yet written. Here are a few notable points:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For these and many other tales about George Grey, see Chapter 9 of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Generation of Men </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">by W.V. Brelsford, unfortunately not available to read in full online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe my father picked it up in an English second-hand
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A search of this lady shows her to have been the eldest of the thirteen children of The Rt. Rev. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ryder" target="_blank">Henry Dudley Ryder,</a> Bishop of Lichfield, and she was born on 18
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Being from a religious family it is debatable whether the young Anna, barely on the cusp of womanhood,
would be permitted to attend the slightly risque gathering places of Regency Bath, but as she also had an aristocratic pedigree and several politicians in the family noted for their liberalism (and more than their fair share of illegitimate progeny among them), it is impossible to say. This extract about her father from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The romantic in me likes to imagine that young Miss Ryder may have strolled about looking at the sights of Bath with her mother or another chaperone, perhaps with this little book in her hand or with it carefully packaged and tucked in her
reticule. Judging from the image below, one wonders if there might have been a trend to carry little poetry books around as a fashion accessory?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This image is dated August, 1817. Interesting that the book she is holding is the same size, with the same brown cover and rectangular emboss as my book and given the title of the image is also <i>Walking Dress</i>, it is very possibly a copy of <i>Walks in a Forest.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The text in the book is extremely florid by modern standards and is littered with explanatory footnotes, some in Greek or Latin, and it takes a lot of patience to read, let alone comprehend. Although the cover is battered, the inner pages are almost pristine and the spine has never been broken. Perhaps young Anna also found it a little tedious and was more interested in the comings and goings of the fashionable set in Regency Bath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another observation, in this 1814 edition the text has been updated into modern usage and no longer has the long "S" which looks like an "<i>f</i>". Here is a link to the <a href="https://archive.org/details/walksinforest00gisb/page/n3" target="_blank">earlier edition at Internet Archive</a>.</span><br />
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childbirth of the heiress apparent, Princess Charlotte, as a result of which
twenty years later her cousin, Princess Victoria, was destined to become Queen, under whom Anna<o:p></o:p>’s future husband would serve in government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 14 August 1827, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Eccleshall" target="_blank">Holy Trinity Church, Eccleshall</a>, Staffordshire, Anna married The Hon. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Grey,_2nd_Baronet" target="_blank">Sir George Grey</a>, who was at the time a lawyer in private practice but who one year later succeeded to the baronetcy as the 2nd Earl Grey, and in 1832 entered Parliament initially as the Whig member for Devonport and in later years as the member for Morpeth. He would serve under four Prime Ministers, often as Home Secretary, and played an important role in many of the major reforms during the Victorian era. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In spite of the strong moral principles of his father, George Henry seems to have followed in the footsteps of his other rakish relatives (and his boss, the Prince of Wales, for that matter!) as, according to an online family tree, he had two illegitimate children as well as seven legitimate ones. George Henry died quite young, in December 1874, at Sandringham and the Prince of Wales attended his funeral service in Northumberland.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It must have been a terrible blow for Anna and George to lose their only son, but they went on to play important roles in raising their grandchildren, one of whom would become the more famous Edward Grey, 1st Viscount of Fallodon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any images of Anna when she was alive, but here is the memorial to her and George in the Holy Trinity Churchyard, Embleton, Northumberland. Copyright <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166480336/anna-sophia-grey" target="_blank">Find-a-Grave</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-62351885930825372382018-11-11T17:13:00.002+11:002018-11-11T17:24:40.348+11:00Book review. "Black Snake: The Real Story of Ned Kelly"<br />
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by native-born Australians, visited displays devoted to him in museums, read a
few books, watched some movies and TV shows and ultimately visited places like
Euroa, Beechworth and Glenrowan in what is known as “<a href="https://www.visitvictoria.com/regions/high-country/things-to-do/touring-routes-and-itineraries/ned-kelly-touring-route" target="_blank">Kelly Country</a>” in
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All of what I learned led me to accept
the history that Ned was a Robin Hood sort of figure, that he was, like that
other Wild Colonial Boy of the song, a bit of a romantic rogue who “robbed the
rich and helped the poor” and his “proud young heart” defended the
downtrodden and marginalised. He wrote letters and advocated a form of colonial Irish independence from English imperialism. Plus, above all, he fought valiantly
against a corrupt and evil police force, that the infamous shoot-out at Stringybark
Creek was forced on him, that he killed only because he had to. Even his actions in shooting a dying
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This led me to search for alternative
points of view on Ned Kelly and find out whether I had been duped for some reason. There wasn’t much to
be found. This was in the days before historic documents or newspapers became
widely available on the Internet, but I was fortunate to hear some stories from those whose ancestors had been victims and had suffered cruelly at Kelly’s hands: horses and
property stolen, women threatened, children terrified, homes trashed and even burned to the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I learned that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kelly didn’t rob the rich English and
give to the poor Irish; he robbed the poor Irish and then laughed at them, that he was no Robin Hood, but a self-serving narcissist, a violent and unstable criminal. Due to the
pro-Ned lobby and massive myth machine, most of these people tended to keep their knowledge and opinions on Kelly to themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Recently, I read and reviewed <i><a href="https://thehistorybucket.blogspot.com/2017/03/ellen-kelly-mother-of-ned.html" target="_blank">Mrs Kelly,</a></i>
a somewhat overwrought tome by Grantlee Kieza about Ned’s mother. While I
did have some sympathy for the woman, throughout that book her son came across as a very nasty
piece of work and I sensed there might be a change in how people would evaluate the real Ned Kelly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am now pleased to have read
<i>Black Snake: The Real Story of Ned Kelly</i> by Leo Kennedy, the great-grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy who,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">together with his two companions, was outgunned and</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> subjected to horrific and sadistic treatment by Kelly at Stringybark Creek, yet has come to be belittled and denigrated by a veritably army of Kelly supporters, fanatics and fantasists
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The facts in the book come from a wide variety of sources: official documents and family histories, from police and eye-witness reports of the time, nearly all of them greatly at odds with the myth. Kennedy explains how the legend started and, once it did, how it has been almost impossible to stop, even up to the present day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When he was a young boy, Ned Kelly was
never mentioned in the family and when Leo Kennedy came home from school one
day asking questions about the famous bushranger, his father had to relent and
explain the history, how Leo’s great-grandfather was murdered by Ned and how
his great-grandmother Bridget had to suffer and bring up five children alone, to endure
the lies that followed, how the lies became the truth. He writes:</span></div>
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the story of Ned Kelly, sanitising and glorifying thievery and murder, Ned
Kelly has morphed from anti-hero to hero and back again. His crimes are excused
or removed from the story. Worse, some hold him up as a role model, an icon. A
loveable larrikin or Robin Hood figure. Some even deny the murders at
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were hurt - Kelly descendants as well as those of the policemen - as the myth warped and
grew tentacles, seemingly with no place for any dissenting view. Leo Kennedy
states that the level of “distortion is breathtaking” and continues to expand in websites and blogs, Wikipedia, even “the Australian Government’s own website is loaded with errors”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There will be some individuals who are none too happy with the publication of this book. Many depend on the mystique of Kelly for their
survival, especially tourism operators and souvenir sellers, but also diverse industries such as clothiers, wineries and even letter-box and garden furniture manufacturers. One famous artist in particular established his
career with his images of Ned Kelly, being<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIxYnmazrE" target="_blank"> Sidney Nolan</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">There is nothing to be gained in exposing the truth if it means you have a lot to lose. Nobody wants a money-making legend messed with.</span><br />
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across the road to where one of my neighbours has a fairly large statue of Ned
Kelly in full armour with rifle in pride of place on his front step. I doubt this
neighbour is ever likely to read this book as he’s most likely a “true believer”
but it is galling to know there many similar crass statues in thousands of
gardens across the country, that few people give any deep or serious thought to what they represent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(The content fully deserves five stars, although the narrative does have some editing issues and grammatical errors, but it is hoped these will be corrected in future editions.)</span></div>
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-85901659895704642132018-10-11T08:50:00.000+11:002018-11-23T14:08:22.366+11:00"Learn it, but never play the retreat". A teenage hero of the Boer War<br />
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War Memorial Hospital in Sydney, Australia. The relevant newspaper funeral notices described him as a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Boer War veteran</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but nothing else. There was no mention of his wife although apparently he was survived by three children - Nora, Eileen and John - and some relatives connected with Fiji. To the uninitiated, the life of </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">John
Francis Dunne</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> was just </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">another routine passing</span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What may not have been known about him is that when he was in his mid-teens he was a world-wide celebrity, almost a cult figure. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the age of 15, he had met Queen Victoria and his image appeared in newspapers, magazines, in comics and children’s books,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> on pennants, badges, buttons and cigarette cards and all other types of memorabilia. He toured and appeared on stage in re-enactments, including a play called <i>During the Siege </i>in which he had the role of a dispatch carrier. There was a music hall ditty written about him and his image was reproduced in commemorative decorative figurines. </span><br />
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the newspapers in 1933 that forced him back into the limelight in order to set
the record straight, that he was very much alive and was the real “<b>Bugler Dunne of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Colenso" target="_blank">Colenso</a></b>”. Apparently quite a number of individuals had tried to pass themselves off as the Bugle Boy in order to cash in on his fame, or gain medals, including one of them who was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“a professional juggler and sword swallower</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”!</span></div>
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resident, Mrs Grace Marguerite Gallwey (nee Phillips) who had served as a nurse during the Boer War, met the ship’s steward and verified that he was in fact one and
the same as the 15 year old bugler whom she had treated nearly 35 years earlier
in South Africa and in England. She remembered him clearly, that she helped him buy new feathers for his hat in Southampton and that she accompanied him when he met Queen Victoria at Osborne on the Isle of Wight, where the Queen gave Dunne a new bugle to replace the one he had lost during the battle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'John Francis Dunne, boy-bugler hero of the Boer War battle of Colenso, was this week admitted to a Sydney hospital. He is now 65 years old. [He turned 66 just days after the article was published.]</span></span> <span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For years school history books have told of the bravery in battle of the 15-years-old bugler, and how Queen Victoria rewarded him with a silver bugle. </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Boer War veterans often speak of his gallantry. </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yesterday, lying in his hospital bed, silver-haired and bespectacled, Mr. Dunne recalled the campaign. </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“<i><b>Colenso was a bitter, bloody battle,</b>” Mr. Dunne said. </i></span><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“<b>It was December 15, 1899. We were fighting to cross the Tugela River and relieve Ladysmith, and the Boers were giving us a slathering. </b></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I was just 15 at the time - I had enlisted as a boy bugler in the 1st Dublin Fusiliers a little over a year before, the day I turned 14.</b> </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I got the order to sound the advance - never play the retreat in the British Army, you know. Learn it, but never play it. </b></span><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I played the advance I began to charge with the officers at the head of the men, when a Boer bullet went through my right arm and hurled my bugle from me </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Simultaneously a piece of shell struck my chest. </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I staggered to my feet, picked up my bugle with my left arm, and finished sounding the advance. </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The other buglers along the lines picked it up and sounded the call also and the troops moved forward. </span></b></i><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>We crossed the river with heavy casualties, but took Ladysmith</i></b>.” </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr. Dunne said he was carried from the battlefront on a stretcher, and was invalided to a hospital in England. </span><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>“<i>Queen Victoria sent for me when I recovered,</i>”</b> he said. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: bold;">“<i>I was taken to the Isle of Wight in the Royal Yacht to see her. </i></span></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>She was very kind to me, and presented me with the bugle</i>.” </b></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr. Dunne said the bugle was stolen from him while he was in the Army in England three years later.'</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From<i><a href="http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/SouthAfrica-BuglerJohnFrancisDunne.html" target="_blank"> Soldiers of the Queen</a></i>, image W V Amey, c. 1900</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Dunne was discharged as medically unfit on 17 March, 1902. For his service in South Africa he received the Queen's South Africa Medal with the clasp </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><i>Relief of Ladysmith</i> and a £5 war gratuity. Apparently he had been offered the enormous sum of £3,000 by Madame Tussaud's for the bugle, but he declined the offer, only to have it stolen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">Details of his time after that are sketchy. His military records contain a letter saying that he transferred to Australia on 23 April 1907, his only address care of the G.P.O. Sydney, but in what capacity is unknown. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">The photo below with his wife and children taken c. 1915 shows him wearing what looks like a ship's steward uniform. There is also a passenger list showing Dunne, aged 30, sailing from England to Australia on the <i>SS Borda</i> early in 1914, with wife Hilda E., aged 21, daughter Nora Ivi aged 2 and son John Francis aged 3 months. Dunne gives his occupation as a Clerk. The same family appears, but is crossed out, on an earlier ship passenger list. Perhaps they missed the sailing for some reason. Interestingly, this list further qualifies Dunne's occupation as a Shipping Clerk. From genealogical searches, his wife was born Hilda Kruckow in New South Wales and she had Italian heritage, but it seems that they were later divorced, which may explain why she does not appear in the funeral notices.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa;">In a Fiji Islands <a href="https://fragmentedidentities.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/stewarts-handbook-directory-of-fiji-1921/" target="_blank">Directory</a> dated 1921, Dunne's name is listed as a resident of Levuka.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It would be fascinating to find out what happened to that stolen bugle. Perhaps it is in some private collection, but if it ever resurfaces, with its plaque intact, it should be instantly recognisable from its description in this extract from the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Illustrated London News</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, 24 February 1900:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">'Bugler Dunne had his visit to Osborne on Monday, crossing the Solent from Southsea in the charge of Lieutenant Knox. A boy of fifteen, dressed in khaki, he was ushered by Sir John McNeil into a small room, where sat her Majesty near a table. He stood and bowed a little nervously; then the Queen told him to step forward, asked him about his wound and whether he liked the Army - which he said he did - and finally presented him with a bugle to take the place of that which he lost by the Tugela River. The new instrument is silver-mounted; it has a green bugle-cord, the green dear to a boy whose father was born in County Tipperary; and a silver plate attached to it bears the inscription:</span></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>"Presented to Bugler John Francis Dunne, 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, by Queen Victoria, to replace the bugle lost by him on the field of battle at Colenso, on the 10th December, 1899 when he was wounded".'</i></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">Bugler Dunne, Bugler Dunne, you are missing all the fun,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">And another chap is bugling where the battle's being won.</span><br />
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Yet you sing, yet you sing, though your arm is in a sling,</div>
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And your little bone is broken where the bullet left a sting,</div>
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And you show a bloody scar. Guess you dunno' where you are,</div>
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Yes I do, yes I do, for I've got a bugle new,</div>
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And it's shining all with silver, and its sound is good and true.</div>
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Left the old one in the river, and I'll go back there, no never -</div>
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Least not for you.</div>
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But I'll go back for the Queen, the finest lady that I've seen -</div>
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Yes, I've seen her, she's a nailer - and I say just what I mean.</div>
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She's a heart that's warm and true for the lads in red and blue.</div>
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God save the Queen!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">When strolling through an English park recently, I stumbled on an interesting and perhaps little-known link between a lost manor house in Tunbridge Wells and a historic place in Victoria, Australia - a place that I have driven past many times without giving it a second thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Many mid-19th Century emigrants from Britain and elsewhere would have first set foot on the Australian continent at Point Henry which is on Corio Bay, an arm of Port Phillip Bay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">At the time, access to the main settlement at Geelong was difficult due to a sand bar that restricted many ships entering the port and most of the larger vessels had no choice but to offload their passengers and cargoes at Point Henry. In later years, channels were cut in the sandbar which enabled Geelong to develop into a major port.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Once ashore, the new arrivals would have had to get themselves to Geelong by whatever means they could. If they had money, they would have been able to hire smaller boats to ferry them across the bay, or horses and carts or wagons to haul them overland with their belongings. If they were poor people, they would have had no option but to walk, carrying whatever they could, trudging through six miles of scrubby bush bordered in places by salty or marshy ground.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Breezy Day at Point Henry, Walter Withers, 1900, National Gallery Victoria</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">How the Point got its name has been debated, although a timeline available from the <a href="http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/bellpen/towns2/phenry/phtimel" target="_blank">Bellarine Historical Society</a> notes that in September 1836, Lieut. H R Henry of the survey vessel <i>HMS Rattlesnake</i> allegedly named it after himself, but <b><i>“… the brig which was in the area 3 months earlier is considered the more credible source.</i></b>” This vessel was the <i>Henry</i>, owned by a man called Henry Reed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Geelong Historical Society erected this plaque in 1951 at Point Henry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">NAMED POINT HENRY IN 1836</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">MANY PIONEER SQUATTERS LANDED</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">THEIR STOCK.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">HERE GEELONG BEGAN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>Henry Reed </b>(1806-1880) was a canny and dynamic, yet profoundly religious, Yorkshire businessman and philanthropist who became influential in many areas of trade and settlement in the early years of colonial Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Henry was the son of a Doncaster postmaster who died when he was just five years old. This left the family in dire straits and Henry's mother took in washing to support the family and to pay for the children's elementary education. At thirteen, Henry became a merchant’s apprentice and at the age of twenty was given a letter of introduction to a trader in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). After arriving in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Hobart in 1827, he walked all the way across the island to Launceston, a distance of some 120 miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">While working in a store in Launceston, he made friends with one <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/batman-john-1752" target="_blank">John Batman </a>and was a witness at his marriage. He would later give Batman a loan to help with his enterprise in establishing the future city of Melbourne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Henry went into business for himself as a general merchant and then moved into shipping, sealing and whaling, banking, and was even briefly a politician. The <i>Henry</i> was one of the first vessels he owned. He established a whaling station at <a href="http://www.visitportland.com.au/history/whaling-in-portland-2/" target="_blank">Portland Bay</a>, and often commanded his own ships on their voyages, with the<i> Henry</i> investigating the viability of harbours in South Australia which would help with the establishment of that colony as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Henry’s strong religious principles remained at the forefront of his activities: <span style="color: #990000;"><b>*</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(250 , 250 , 250); font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">"With all his business ventures Reed found time for practical religion. By faith a Wesleyan and a fervent evangelist, he had ready sympathy for all unfortunates. At Port Phillip he spent some time up country with Aboriginals in hope of saving them from a fate like that of the Tasmanian tribes. He was reputed to have preached the first sermon on the site of Melbourne, his congregation being Henry and John Batman, <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buckley-william-1844" target="_blank">William Buckley</a>, and three Sydney Aboriginals. To encourage the opening of a mission at the new settlement he offered £20 and annual subscriptions. At Launceston in November 1837 he had himself locked one night in the cells with condemned criminals who were to be executed next morning."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Even on his return to England in 1847, where he lived for the next 26 years, he continued to be deeply involved in philanthropic causes:-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">… he undertook many preaching engagements throughout the north of England and, dismayed by the widespread poverty he encountered, devoted himself to providing homes and assisting the poor with food and other necessities. In his native Doncaster he bought ten cottages for free occupation by aged Christians and arranged to pay all the rates and repair bills."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Another of his passions was building, including warehouses for his businesses and houses for his ever-increasing family. (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Henry married twice and had at least sixteen children.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Macquarie House was one of Launceston's earliest buildings that still stands today. <a href="http://lookaroundlaunceston.blogspot.com/2014/10/civic-square-macquarie-house.html" target="_blank">Read about it here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Another of his earlier houses built in 1859 also still stands today at Queenscliffe, on the Bellarine Peninsula near to where ships passed through the Heads of Port Phillip Bay on their way to Point Henry. Generations of Port Phillip pilots have called this modest six-roomed house home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">On his return to England, Henry built a number of imposing houses for his family, including Dunorlan Harrogate but it was at another Dunorlan at Royal Tunbridge Wells, where he would create the most lavish and grandest of them all. Its keystone displayed his family crest, a wheatsheaf with the motto “<i>Nothing Without the Cross</i>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This new Dunorlan would have everything that any self-made Victorian entrepreneur should aspire to: a collection of rare or exotic trees, stretches of open meadows and a series of terraces that led down to a private lake complete with cascade created out of that peculiarly unique Victorian invention, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulhamite" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" target="_blank">pulhamite rock.</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">However, in spite of the huge amount of time and money invested in Dunorlan, Henry was dissatisfied and did not live there for long. (There are suggestions that conflicts with local Christians over the message such opulence was sending to the local community might have had something to do with it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Less than 10 years after its completion, Dunorlan was put up for sale. The house was bought by a Canadian banking family but eventually it was requisitioned in 1941 as part of the War effort. Apparently soldiers who were billeted there used the statues along the cedar avenue for target practice and left nothing but a few pedestals. In 1946, the building caught fire and although efforts were made to restore it, the local authorities had it demolished in 1957. New houses were built in its place and the rest of Dunorlan Park was given to the public for everyone to enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In 1873, Henry Reed had <span style="color: #333333;">returned to Tasmania where he continued to combine his evangelism with creating more grand homes for his family. The estate of Mount Pleasant near Launceston and Mountain Villa on Wesley Dale. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mount Pleasant was said to be the finest house in Northern Tasmania.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Henry did not slow down, however. In 1875 he helped in the establishment of the New Guinea Mission, buying for it a steam launch named the <i>Henry Reed</i>. He bought and demolished a hotel and a skittle alley in Launceston and built a new chapel on the site. This would later become the Henry Reed Memorial Church, now the Baptist Gateway Church.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As for Point Henry, it has long been an ugly blot on the landscape, being the site of the Alcoa Aluminium smelter, which is now closed and <a href="https://www.alcoa.com/australia/en/news/releases.asp?id=2017/09/alcoa-publishes-updated-master-plan-for-point-henry-peninsula-&year=y2017" target="_blank">there are long-term plans</a> for the whole area of Point Henry to be redeveloped and rehabilitated with new housing and tourist attractions. Churches are unlikely to feature in our secular age, but perhaps Henry Reed would approve of the energy and vision it will require to take to bring to fruition.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p><b style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, serif;">* </b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Extracts from entry for </span><a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reed-henry-2582" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" target="_blank">Henry Reed in the ADB</a>Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-37471850269450344982017-11-09T11:00:00.001+11:002017-11-09T19:21:22.513+11:00Life and Times of Charles Algernon Parsons<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you were to ask the average person who was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Algernon_Parsons" target="_blank">Sir Charles Algernon Parson</a>s, you would probably get a blank stare. If you also asked what was his connection to the tragic liner <i>Titanic</i>, you might receive a more interested response. And if you asked a student of engineering, then hopefully you would be met with instant recognition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Parsons was the inventor of the steam turbine that would totally revolutionise electricity generation in the world's power stations as well as marine propulsion. From 1899 onwards, steam turbines would be fitted into naval warships as well as many famous passenger liners such as <i>Mauretania</i>, <i>Lusitania</i> and that most memorable of all, <i>Titanic</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it is the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinia" target="_blank">Turbinia</a></i> that came to be uniquely associated with Parsons and its speed created a major sensation in 1897 during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Review at Spithead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Parsons had trouble interesting investors in his new invention so in an audacious plan to show what his little vessel was capable of, he purposely "gatecrashed" the Review. <i>Turbinia</i> dashed out and raced past the line of some 165 ships. Another boat was sent out to catch her, but <i>Turbinia</i> easily outran the pursuer and it was almost swamped in her wake. The crowd, including Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, was astonished. Parsons had decisively proved the abilities of his steam turbine engine.<span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For any afficianado or keen student of engineering inventions, <i>Turbinia</i> itself can still be seen today at <a href="https://discoverymuseum.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Discovery Museum </a>in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this connection, I am delighted to announce that my cousin, Eddie Kirton, a committee member of the North East Coast Joint Branch of The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology and The Royal Institution of Marine Architects - and who has extensive knowledge about Charles A. Parsons and <i>Turbinia</i> - will be giving a talk entitled:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all interested parties are welcome to attend. (Further contact information<a href="http://trinityhousenewcastle.org.uk/enquiries/" target="_blank"> here</a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Like many a strong-minded genius, before and since, Parsons' diffident personality meant he had great trouble with being a public figure and his family relationships were complex. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As an example, Eddie has scoured all the known Parsons family and scientific archives to try and track even one adult image of his only son, Algernon, who was killed in World War I, but none has been found. It seems highly possible that all existing family photographs of him may have been destroyed by his sister Rachel in 1933 when she had the family home cleared of its contents after her mother's death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lady Katherine Parsons was a formidable woman in her own right, a suffragette and champion of women in engineering. Rachel, also a brilliant engineer, but profligate and unstable, had a tragic end, bludgeoned to death by a disgruntled stable-hand to whom she owed money. (She will be explored in greater detail in an upcoming post on my companion blog on women, <i>The History Bucket.</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eddie's talk will touch on these fascinating aspects of Parsons' life as well and one doesn't have to be an engineer to enjoy learning about this extraordinary man to whom the world owes so much.</span><br />
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-39803104160048147672017-09-06T10:08:00.000+10:002018-02-10T07:08:31.547+11:00Farewell to Paradise<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This now concludes my exploration into the stories of of the men who were buried at
Paradise Cemetery in Marandellas, Rhodesia (now Marondera, Zimbabwe) during the Boer War era. </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">* </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been an enlightening and often moving experience to now know something of the personal histories of those whose graves I stood beside so many years ago. (<a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/remembering-road-to-paradise.html" target="_blank">See my initial post here.)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While I haven</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">’</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t solved the puzzle of exactly how many individuals in total lie in Paradise, I have clarified the whereabouts of some. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There may well be others who have slipped through the cracks of officialdom, non-combatants attached to the
army services and whose details are</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> missing altogether. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A most useful discovery in trying to resolve the last of the British Imperial Yeomanry men
buried in Paradise, has been this book </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Rhodesia - and After: Being the
Story of the 17th and 18th Battalions of Imperial Yeomanry in South
Africa </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">written by Sharrad H. Gilbert, published in 1901, and </span><a href="https://archive.org/stream/rhodesiaandafte00gilbgoog/rhodesiaandafte00gilbgoog_djvu.txt" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">now available online in digitized format</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is worth reading Gilbert’s straightforward and sobering account of what the British and Empire contingents had to endure as part of the Rhodesian Field Force, of how some of the strongest and fittest men, like <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/the-man-who-never-reached-paradise.html" target="_blank">New Zealander Rough Rider, John Saxon</a>, were the first ones to fall victim to “the malarial mists”
and “steaming swamps” of Mozambique and left to die en route in remote and primitive conditions.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Assuming Gilbert’s personal reporting is often more reliable than the official records, it is now
possible to eliminate many men from the archival lists and confirm they <i><b>do
not</b></i> lie at Paradise Cemetery, in spite of the fact that their service records with the
National Archives in the UK, the UK Register of Soldiers Effects, various other Anglo Boer
War returns, plus numerous newspaper reports of the time all suggesting that they<i> do</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apart from instances of incompetence, another feasible reason for so much confusion may be that the military staff reporting on the deaths from the base at Marandellas were under stress and also suffering from exhaustion or fevers themselves and in no fit state to be checking particulars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is also highly likely that most of the families concerned were never aware of the mistakes in places of burial; that few of them ever had the chance to make the pilgrimage to Africa to pay tribute to their lost loved ones or, if they did, they would not know of the errors that were compounded by the good intentions of groups like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_of_Loyal_Women" target="_blank">Guild of Loyal Women</a>, as shown to be the case with Paradise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gilbert’s book also confirms the<a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/brothers-and-others.html" target="_blank"> two men with the surname of Shaw</a>, George Frederick and Albert Edward,
were buried at Bamboo Creek and Umtali respectively in spite of many mentions of Marandellas but, having investigated
their stories in some depth, I shall not delete them from my earlier post as along with the sad story of John Saxon are
good examples of such mistakes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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(<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Navy and Army Illustrated, </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> 21 April 1900)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Gilbert also refers to his visit to the sixteen graves at the
<a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/mashonaland-east/mashona-rebellion-first-chimurenga-1896-7-graves-old-marandellas-ruzawi-cemetery" target="_blank">Mashonaland Rebellion cemetery </a>a few miles away at Ruzawi, this may help to explain
why the number “sixteen” was mentioned by the <a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/more-lost-australians.html" target="_blank">Australian visitor of 1933 </a>who
could have confused the two cemeteries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the <a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/mashonaland-east/anglo-boer-war-graves-paradise-plot-cemetery-marondera" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a> website states, there is a marker at Paradise that definitely doesn’t belong there and should be at Ruzawi. It is for Trooper
James Hastie Stoddart of the Umtali Rifles who was killed in action during the Rebellion in 1897. He was the son of James Hastie Stoddart, once
the Chief Editor of the <i>Glasgow Herald.</i> Another forgotten story of a young man going out to far-flung places to fight for “Queen and
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The only possible way of determining for sure how many individuals lie in
unmarked graves at Paradise Cemetery would involve archaeology with a geophysical survey and that is never going to happen
unless some future Zimbabwe government becomes more tolerant of its white
colonial history and permits such investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if such a scenario did eventuate, the results would be unlikely to offer much in the way of academic value. Men who never saw action because
they died of illness, accident or suicide rarely, if ever, warrant quite the same attention as battlefield heroes. There is no excitement or historical glory-of-war glamour attached to them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The current commemoration of the centenary of World War I has reignited considerable interest in the stories of men and women from all over the British Empire who served and died in that War. There have been numerous respectful services and the tender restoration of graves and memorials, pilgrimages by thousands of descendants too young to have known their ancestors, church services and huge poppy displays, plus more than a touch of dewy-eyed sentimentality over a generation stamped with sacrifice and nobility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Contrast all of this with those Sons</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of the Empire who did likewise just a few years earlier and travelled to Southern Africa to serve during the Anglo Boer War. Even if it was an unpopular war at the time, it is still sad</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that there is not the same dignity awarded to its memorials in countries where the action took place.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> While some may see the destruction of war graves as a natural reaction of indigenous populations against what they see as evidence of</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> colonialism, the reality is that it has more to do with ignorance and vandalism in the</span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1502743/Thieves-steal-crosses-from-British-graves-to-melt-down-for-scrap.html" target="_blank"> hunt for items of value </a>including metal crosses or goods t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hought to be buried with the bodies.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So perhaps it is best that those graves that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lie scattered and lost along the route taken by the Rhodesian Field Force in 1900 from Beira to Marandellas and beyond and via obscure places like </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bamboo Creek and Iron Mine Hill have no markers to identify those who have long been beyond the cares of this world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling in his poem about that </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">great Empire figure himself, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes" target="_blank">Cecil John Rhodes,</a> who was buried within</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“...<i> the granite of the ancient North</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">” </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ju</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">st a few years after the Boer War, they also lie at peace in the same</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“...</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> g</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>reat spaces washed with sun ...”</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">7,894 killed</span><br style="background-color: white; display: block; height: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">13,250 died of disease</span><br style="background-color: white; display: block; height: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">934 missing</span><br style="background-color: white; display: block; height: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white;">22,828 wounded</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those men that </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have discovered in this small research project </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who went mad and committed suicide, or died in accidents, or from neglect, exposure and exhaustion, are presumably all just lumped together under the deaths from disease. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* Research into the sole woman buried at Paradise, Gertrude Margaret McLaren, revealed she was aged 49 when she died at Paradise Estate on 20 October 1935 of heart disease. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was born in the Cape Colony, South Africa. Her husband was one of the several doctors listed as her medical practitioners on her death certificate. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was Thomas Dick McLaren, who had been born in Edinburgh and immigrated to Southern Rhodesia where he seems to have worked in various towns and on mines as the Government-appointed resident doctor. He also saw service during World War I, reaching the rank of Captain and his record card indicates he served in the hospital services at Malta. He died at Gatooma in 1938 aged 64. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gertrude's death certificate shows she had two daughters, but his death certificate shows four children, so possibly Gertrude was a second wife, but evidence as to the marriages has not as yet been found. It is assumed the property called Paradise Estate belonged to the McLarens during the 1930s and would have included, or been adjacent to, the Cemetery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If anyone reading this knows more of the McLaren family, please do contact me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">[<b>Update:</b> Since writing the above, a reader has advised me that Gertrude's daughter, Helen, wrote a memoir about her youth at the Paradise Estate. It is entitled <a href="http://www.lulu.com/au/en/shop/helen-mclaren/a-rhodesian-childhood/paperback/product-4067711.html" target="_blank">"A Rhodesian Childhood"</a>, copyright 1980, and was published in UK in 2008 by Sandeman Press.]</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span><br />
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Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-90504202479338348132017-08-27T13:04:00.000+10:002017-09-06T10:17:24.983+10:00He was only nineteen<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so to the last and perhaps most poignant of the burials at Paradise Cemetery that date to the Boer War era.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>George William Norton Stevens </b>was born in Suffolk in 1881, the only son of Dr George Stevens and his wife Harriett Earl Stevens (nee Cowdell). He received his education at Epsom College and also planned to be a medical practitioner and, while in training at the Charing Cross Hospital, he volunteered with the Royal Army Medical Corps for the war in South Africa. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His family home at <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101032415-prospect-house-norton" target="_blank">Prospect House</a>, Norton, Suffolk is now a Grade II British Listed Building. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Several of the official records state he died "of exhaustion", which is rather vague, and hints at overwork possibly being a factor. In the following two letters to his sister as reproduced in the <i>Bury Free Press</i>, it seems his illness began with a sore throat and in those pre-antibiotic days all too easily developed into a major infection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Bury Free Press</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8 September 1900</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NORTON</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DEATH OF A SON OF
DR. STEVENS,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IN RHODESIA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We regret to
learn that the death has taken place in Rhodesia, of the only son of Dr.
Stevens, of Norton, who went out on active service. We give below two letters
which have been received by Miss Stevens, of Norton, from two of his comrades,
who speak in the highest terms of his work with the forces. The receipt of
these letters was the only intimation which the relatives received of his
death, as they did not even know he was ill. We are quite sure that the
sympathy of the whole locality, and of all who knew the deceased, will go out
to his parents and relatives in their great trial and the altogether
irreparable loss which they have sustained. The letters referred to are as
follows:-</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>R.A.M.C.
Rhodesian Field Force,</i></span></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marandellas,
Mashonaland,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1st August, 1900.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear Madam, - No
doubt by the time this letter reaches you you will have heard of the sad news
about your dear brother, who passed peacefully away on the 28th of July. He had
been ill for about five days, and up to the third day we all had hopes that he
would pull through, when he took a turn for the worse and became very weak. Although
he was unable to speak during the last two days of his life, he was able to
write down on a piece of paper what he wanted. I do not think he had much pain,
the end came peacefully about 12 o’clock on the 28th, when he passed away in
his sleep; so peaceful was the end. We all feel for you and his people in your
great loss. He had endeared himself to all who he came in contact with in the
discharge of his duties or otherwise, which duties were always faithfully and
conscientiously performed. He was buried here on the 30th with full military
honours, the Surgeon Captain reading the beautiful burial service of the
Church. Around the grave were grouped detachments from every regiment in the
camp, men who came on their own accord to render that last tribute of
friendship and respect which he had won for himself whilst in the service of
his Queen and country. A monument will be erected over his grave by us. To you
and to his people I tender my sincere sympathy. You have lost a loving brother
and I have lost a comrade good and true, and I pray that He who orders all
things for the best will comfort you in your sorrow and bring us all nearer
Him, and that the day is not far distant when we shall be reunited with those
we have loved and lost for a while.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I beg to remain,
madam, yours faithfully,</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">G. HERBERT
ARNOLD,</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Aug. 1, 1900,</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Islington,
London, W.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear Miss
Stevens, - As I joined on the same date, and came out to South Africa as
hospital assistant with your brother, I am sure you will excuse me for thus
writing you. All through the voyage out, the stay at Cape Town, and subsequent
stay here, we were great friends, and in fact he was greatly liked by all the
hospital staff and patients, especially latterly, when he took the post of
dispenser. It is, therefore, with great regret that I have to be the writer of
bad news. The dear fellow fell ill on July 23rd with a sore throat, which
gradually grew worse, and in spite of all the attention all here could give,
which I assure you we gave, and to the infinite grief of all, sank weaker and
weaker till at 12 o’clock midnight on the 28th he passed peacefully away to his
heavenly home. I cannot express the grief of all here at the loss of so good a
friend, and all wish me to condole with you in such a terrible bereavement, and
wish me to express their sympathy with his relations.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was buried
with due honours on the 30th, and we are seeing that a cross with inscription
is mounted, as showing our regard for a dear departed friend.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His death was due
to tonsillitis. Having to write this bad news, I hope you will rest assured
that we all did what lay in our power for your dear brother, and accept our
deepest sympathy for your great loss.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remain,</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yours very
sincerely,</span></i></div>
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CHAS. L. GOLDING.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GEORGE SMART
HARDING.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">George was only nineteen years of age when he died - a life with so much promise to do good and help humanity cut short - just as would happen over and over again in all the subsequent wars of the 20th Century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even as I stood beside his grave all those years ago and wondered who he was (see <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/remembering-road-to-paradise.html" target="_blank">my initial blog post here</a>), young soldiers aged nineteen were dying only a few miles away as another protracted war raged around us. That was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War" target="_blank">Rhodesian Bush War</a> - or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimurenga" target="_blank">Second Chimurenga</a> - another African conflict that has slipped into the byways of history even though there are still many alive today who served in it and have been left to carry its scars with little sympathy from the world at large.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">song by the Australian band Redgum is about another unpopular war in Asia that ran parallel to the Bush War during the 1970s. This was the Vietnam War when other young men were conscripted and sent to fight and die on foreign soil. "<i>I was Only Nineteen</i>". Its strong anti-war message remains relevant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">George William Norton Stevens is commemorated in the Chapel at his old school <a href="https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/125988" target="_blank">Epsom College</a> on a plaque that was unveiled by Winston Churchill in 1903. There is also a beautiful stained glass window dedicated to former students who died during the Boer War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His name also appears on</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> the </span><a href="http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/BuryStEdmundsBoer.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">Bury St Edmunds Boer War Memorial</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, at </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6930439328/in/photostream/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">St. Bartholomew's</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, Smithfield, London, and although his name is missing from the online listing, he should also be at the</span><a href="http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Hampshire/AldershotRAMCBoer.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank"> RAMC Boer War Memorial, Aldershot</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/brothers-and-others.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Brothers and Others</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/he-was-only-nineteen.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>He was Only Nineteen</b></a></span><br />
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<a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/farewell-to-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Farewell to Paradise</b></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Thomas George Bertram
Armstrong </b>(112544) of the 61st Company of the Imperial Yeomanry has quite a bit
in common with Captain H.C.W. Hamilton (<a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/the-chronicles-of-hamilton.html" target="_blank">read about him here</a>) as he also hailed from Ireland and his father was also a churchman, being The Reverend
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be found at this stage about young Thomas George Bertram. His service record can be located the National Archives of the UK, but is not available to view freely online. He joined the 61st (South Irish Horse - Dublin) Company of volunteers that was raised on 7 March, 1900 and served with the 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry.</span></div>
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all the records. Sadly, no record of his name on any Irish Boer War memorials can be found and it is not known if his family had any plaque erected in his memory although a sibling who died in infancy is recorded in the Stradbally graveyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trooper <b>Sidney Edward Davis</b> (4701) of the 50th (2nd Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry apparently died of "blood poisoning" on 26 July 1900, although some sources state "disease". </span><br />
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He was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, in December 1879, and christened at Holy Trinity, Hawley, on 4 January 1880, so thus also only 20 when he died. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His father Thomas Davis was a blacksmith, his mother Sarah was nee Pullen. In the 1881 Census return they lived at the "Blacksmith's Shop" and one year old Sidney had three elder sisters and one brother, George. In the 1911 Census Return, Thomas Davis, aged nearly 70 was still practising his trade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Noticing that George was close in age to Sidney, I found that he, too, had joined the 50th Company of the 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry with a similar service number that suggests they enlisted at the same time. He was Corporal George William Davis (4712) who returned safely from the war, becoming a blacksmith like his father and living at Blackwater, Hampshire, with his wife as per the 1911 Census Return. </span><br />
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Being part of the same Field Force, it is hoped George was with his younger brother when he died. To have a member of the family near to him at the end would surely have been a comfort to poor Sidney that few others like him would have had.</span><br />
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His grave marker has a major error in the date - 1906 instead of 1900 - and given the general disorder connected with burials at Paradise, the placement may also be incorrect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next is Trooper <b>Albert Edward Shaw</b> (15507) of the 75th Sharpshooters Company, 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. He has a service record with the National Archives in the UK which again is unavailable digitally and finding the correct man via the usual online sources or via Ancestry or FindMyPast is proving elusive without exact age as there are too many men with the same name. Being a Sharpshooter, a rural background is likely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He died on 19 June 1900 and from the not always reliable UK Soldiers' Effects records the only clue is that he was married, his widow's name Helen (could be Ellen), but with no address given for her again difficult to find more about him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trooper <b>George Frederick Shaw</b> (12249) of the 67th Sharpshooters came from Ayrshire, Scotland, one of ten children of Charles George Shaw and Flora Campbell Whiteside. Their youngest son, he was born 24 June 1876 and died on 29 May 1900 (the National Archives erroneously have 1901).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The family tree does not show any brother called Albert Edward Shaw, but given they were both Sharpshooters and, as with the Davis brothers above, perhaps some cousin connection is possible, although there are no newspaper articles that mention the death of Albert Edward Shaw as does this one about George Frederick Shaw:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is a link to an image of</span><a href="https://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/c-g-shaw-214712" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"> C.G. Shaw, Clerk to the Ayrshire Counci</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">l, and a former factor to the Marquis of Bute at Dumfries. The local newspapers also carry reports two elder brothers of George Frederick also joined the war, being James Edward Shaw and Phillip Armstrong Shaw. Their records are beyond the scope of this project, but it is presumed they survived.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/from-sunlit-plains-extended-to-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">From the sunlit plains extended</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/the-man-who-never-reached-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The man who never reached Paradise</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/more-lost-australians.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">More lost Australians?</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/he-was-only-nineteen.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>He was Only Nineteen</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 19 August 1933, an E.H. Stephens, former trooper in the
West Australian Bushmen, 3rd Contingent, wrote to the Editor of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The West
Australian</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> from the Cecil Hotel, Umtali, while on a return pilgrimage to the places he had
travelled through when serving in the Boer War and he described each place as they
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What he had to say about Marandellas throws up more
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“On arrival at [Marandellas] I found a new and up-to-date
school built on the very site where our horse lines were located when we passed
through that place in 1900. I was distressed to find there <u>sixteen graves of
soldiers with no inscription on them whatsoever</u>. It would appear that the names
had been painted on the iron standards at the head of each grave some
considerable time ago, but in the course of time all these had become
illegible. I made inquiries from the police at Marandellas and was informed
that they did not know who were the men buried there, but thought that they
were Australians. I am taking up this matter with the Minister of Defence at
Canberra to see that, if these are Australian graves, some suitable inscription
should be placed there to mark the fact that Australians passed through
Marandellas to the relief of Mafeking in the early part of 1900.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sixteen graves found by E.H. Stephens! Even allowing for some of them to be soldiers from other British contingents, it is still astonishing and adds yet another angle to this series of blog posts that was originally intended to try and establish the backgrounds of the mere handful of individuals thought to be buried at Paradise Cemetery but, with each discovery, is shaping up to be a far more complicated
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“From Marandellas I came down to Umtali and I found
the graves of a large number of Australians and Imperial Yeomanry, who died in
that town, chiefly of malarial fever. I am very pleased to state, and no doubt
relatives of the fallen will be pleased to know, that the graves of these men
have been carefully tended and looked after ever since their burial, by the
Loyal Women’s Guild of Umtali. When my wife and I visited the cemetery fresh
flowers were on every soldier’s grave, and a little bush of Christ-thorn had
been planted on each grave, and each plant was flowering gaily in memory of the
brave men who gave up their lives in the service of their country so long
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #20124d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I was very grieved to hear that graves of all the soldiers
who were buried in Portuguese territory, which lies between Umtali and the town
of Beira, were in great disrepair, and not one single name was filled in on
these graves. In most cases, tall rank grass covered the spot of these men’s
last resting place. It is a serious reflection on our country that the graves
of our men who died on foreign soil should be treated in such a way. I am
mentioning this matter also to the Minister of Defence to see if any Australian
graves are amongst these, so that evidence of these men having been buried
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Paradise Cemetery but with their deaths erroneously attributed to other places and before well-meaning groups like the Loyal Women’s Guild</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> belatedly tried to restore their markers, only to add to the mess. The best clue as to where they died is by correlating dates of their deaths with the movements of their units (on the understanding, of course, some</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> sick men may have been left behind and not recorded as so). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born Purnim near to Warrnambool, Victoria, on 16 March
1877. His occupation, a station manager at Purnim and his marital status, single. His next of kin were his parents, John William Swan and Jane Swan (nee Campbell). A Protestant by religion, he stood 5 feet 11 1/4 inches. Sailed on the <i>Euralyus</i> from Melbourne on 10 March 1900 and disembarked at Beira on 3 April 1900 to join the Rhodesian Field Force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although official cause of death on 28 May 1900 is shown as enteric or malarial fever (these cannot be the same thing, enteric is another name for typhoid) there are also reports that in his delirium he took carbolic acid by mistake instead of his proper medicine and died of poisoning and thus is also listed as a suicide. As with the tragic mistakes discovered earlier that went on in the field hospitals of the time, this is something that would cause outrage in our day and be the subject of a major inquiry. One wonders if his family were ever told the truth or got to the bottom of it. <a href="http://www.bwm.org.au/site/John_Swan.php" target="_blank">Australian Boer War entry here.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Captain Joseph Dallimore wrote about Trooper John Kiley’s death (<a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/from-sunlit-plains-extended-to-paradise.html" target="_blank">see earlier blog post here</a>), he mentioned Kiley was “the second” man from D Squadron to die in Marandellas and thus the first must have been Thomas Barham Foster. (D Squadron had arrived in Marandellas in July.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born Sale, Victoria, 27 July 1875, he stated his occupation as a Miner from
Inglewood. He was single. He shows his brother, Arthur Alexander Foster, of Dunolly, Victoria, as next of kin, and parents William Henry Foster and Catherine McLean Foster, nee Paterson.
Religion, Church of England. Sailed from Port Melbourne on the <i>Victorian</i>. Died of
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offered Sergeant’s stripes when he was accepted for the Bushmen Contingent.” This entry from the <i>Bendigo Advertiser</i> of 23 May 1900:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DEATH OF SERGEANT BRENT </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT OF CARISBROOK</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carisbrook, 22nd May</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This afternoon Mrs. Brent received a telegram from the Minister of Defence conveying the painful news that her husband, Sergeant Herbert Brent, of the third Victorian, or Bushmen's contingent, had been killed in a railway accident near Umpati [sic. Umtali]. Most of the residents were at the time engaged in making preparations for the Mafeking demonstration tomorrow night, and Major Bruhn immediately postponed it to Thursday. Sergeant Brent, on joining the contingent, relinquished the business of the Carisbrook hotel. His previous experience as a member of the New South Wales permanent forces led to his appointment as a non-commissioned officer of the contingent. He was a member of the Carisbrook Borough Council, and the vacancy created by his departure, was only filled a few days ago. He was also a lieutenant of the Carisbrook Fire Brigade. He was about 36 years of age and leaves a widow and four young children. The sad news cast a gloom over the town.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apparently there is a private letter that states Brent was buried </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“the next day at 7 a.m. in Marandellas '<i>on a
bright sunny morning with full military honours</i>'.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But, then you have some newspapers telling their readers that Brent died in Winburg, a town in The
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A brief investigation of Herbert Brent via Ancestry family trees suggests he was older than stated (b. 1863) and the son of a convict transported for larceny, also that he had been married twice and had many more children than just the three/four mentioned in the reports. One has to wonder why a man with so many responsibilities wanted to volunteer for such an enterprise in the first place.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was about to include Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://alh-research.tripod.com/NSWCBC/index.album/275-squadron-quartermaster-sergeant-john-nathaniel-walton?i=254" target="_blank">John Nathaniel Walton</a> </b>No. 275 of the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">New South Wales Citizen Bushmen as another possible in Paradise, as he has several entries suggesting he was buried at Marandellas, but this detailed report in <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206970927?searchTerm=Walton%20Marandellas&searchLimits=" target="_blank"><i>The Ballarat Star</i></a> of 17 July 1900 by Reverend James Green, the Chaplain accompanying this contingent, confirms beyond doubt he died and was buried at Iron Mine Hill. </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is worth including here this poignant extract as it gives some idea of how the graves of these men have become lost to history (also that of the pioneer father and his two children). Perhaps the pile of stones is still there although any wooden cross would not last long in Africa:-</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" ... At noon of the 21st, Quartermaster-Sergeant John N. Walton, who had been ill more or less since leaving Marandellas became very much worse. He had been relieved of his duties ... and was lying on the waggons during the trek. He became unconscious when being assisted off one of the waggons. Captain Machattie decided that it would necessary to leave Walton at Iron Mine Hill. I</span></o:p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> stayed with him, and had a supply of invalid's food and some medicine with which to nurse him. Mrs. Svenson, the proprietress of the store, was very kind and we occupied a Kaffir hut near the store. I kept my horse with me, in order to follow the detachment. Unfortunately I was disappointed in my hope of nursing poor Walton well, for he gradually sank, and never regained consciousness. He died at 3.10 a.m. on 22nd May of congestion of the brain following malarial fever and bronchitis. I stopped a waggon-load of "boys" who were going to work on the road at 4 a.m. The foreman allowed me three boys to dig a grave. They worked until 2.30 p.m. as the ground was rocky. We dug the grave in a line with three other graves, in which were buried Mrs. Svenson's husband and two children, who died of fever at Iron Mine Hill. The only two white settlers, who were very kind, tried their best to make a coffin of packing case wood, but found it impossible with the short wood they had. We were reluctant to bury him in his blankets, though that is the custom on the veldt. After searching we found an old sheet of corrugated iron; this we placed on the bottom of the grave. We built a wall of stone around this, and made a strong lid to fit on top of it. At 4 o'clock on the same day we buried him. We put a wooden cross at the head of the grave, with name and suitable inscription painted upon it. ...."</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some nations and veterans organisations spend an inordinate amount of time and expense restoring cemeteries from the last two world wars, creating beautiful gardens and fixing up weathered or damaged gravestones, yet the scattered war cemeteries in Africa seem doomed to be neglected or completely forgotten. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All posts in this series on Digging the Dust</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/the-chronicles-of-hamilton.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Chronicles of Hamilton</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I began this project of researching the stories of what I thought was a mere handful of individuals buried in the tiny Paradise Cemetery in Marandellas [Marondera, Zimbabwe], I had no idea where it was going to take me, let alone how complicated it would get. The more I delve into the sources available to me, the murkier it all becomes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One man said to be buried in Paradise is definitely not there. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lthough it means I've had to diverge from my original focus, his story and what happened after his death is worth putting on the record.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Follow this newspaper link for details of his full military burial service conducted by Her Brittanic Majesty's Consul in Beira.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS19000827.2.26?query=Trooper%20Saxon" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><i>Feilding Star</i> 27 August 1900.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shortly after this funeral, accusations of incompetence in hospital care were made in <i>The New Zealand Times</i> by that newspaper's official correspondent to the Boer War, Alfred Morton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has all the ingredients that would be right at home in our own 21st Century media scrum. Genuine investigative journalism or "fake news"? True recollections of fellow soldiers or</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "mis-remembrances"? Army cover up, political point-scoring or personal vendetta?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my earlier post about <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/from-sunlit-plains-extended-to-paradise.html" target="_blank">John Kiley from Australia,</a> it was an army officer who gave his own private opinion on the disgraceful state of affairs in the hospital where Kiley died, but nothing further seems to have come of it. But here is a case debated publicly across New Zealand that no doubt caused the family considerable anger and stress to add to their grief and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">went as far as questions being raised in the NZ House of Representatives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What makes it even more poignant is that this is the first image that I have found to put a face to a name; a handsome young Rough Rider whose natural robust health should have helped him to conquer a malarial fever that far less fit men managed to overcome but who became the victim of inadequate medical care at a critical time in his illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The saga is largely gleaned from the pages of New Zealand newspapers available online via <i><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers" target="_blank">Papers Past</a></i>. Although mindful that what you read in newspapers is never to be fully trusted, one has to draw one's own conclusions and ask the important question:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why would the war correspondent, Alfred Mor</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ton - who described himself as a "conscientious journalist" - deliberately risk his career by challenging the top brass in the NZ army contingent with an invention? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John Frederick Hyde Saxon was born in 1873. He seems to have been known as Fred and he signed his enlistment papers as Frederick. His occupation was Farmer, his height 5 ft 11 ins. His family were well-known pioneers in the Manawatu District.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fred joined the 7th Company of the 4th New Zealand Rough Riders and sailed on the <i>SS Gymeric </i>from Lyttleton, NZ on 31 March 1900. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The NZ Archives hold the Boer War record of service for Frederick Saxon, including statements relevant to his illness<a href="http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE11136695" target="_blank"> that can be read online here. </a>They give his date of death as 19 June 1900 from malarial fever and burial in Beira, Mozambique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 25 June 1900 this appeared in the <i>Feilding Star</i>: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[original block text in these reports has been broken up into paragraphs to make the reading easier]</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Late Fred Saxon</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the news reached Feilding on Saturday of the death of Fred Saxon, a son of Mr John Saxon (now of Kereru, but one of the oldest and most respected settlers in this district) very general sorrow was felt and expressed.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It will be remembered that Fred Saxon joined the fourth contingent of Rough Riders, and sailed for South Africa in the Gymeric. He was well liked by all owing to his many amiable qualities, and was of a most affectionate and kindly disposition combined with courage and determination. He was also a hard worker, and promised to make a good soldier as well as a useful settler.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Very general sympathy has been expressed for the bereaved parents and other members of this esteemed family. As a token of respect for the deceased soldier the flag at the Volunteer Drill Hall was hoisted at half mast.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reports in various NZ newspapers including </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Nelson Evening
Mail</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 16 October, also </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Otago Witness, </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10 October 1900, printed various edited reports of Alfred Morton's statement that Fred Saxon had been subjected to shocking treatment during his final days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most of the reports are in a similar vein, but he</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">re is one of the more complete transcripts from the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Feilding Star</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS19001005.2.23?query=Rough%20Riders,%20Saxon" target="_blank">5 October 1900 </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Writing under date Marandellas, July 24th, the special correspondent of the <i>New Zealand Times</i>, recorded as follows the disgraceful circumstances under which Trooper Saxon, of Feilding, went to his death in South Africa: —</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a previous letter I mentioned that Trooper Saxon who had been left behind on the hospital ship at Beira, was reported to be dead, and stated that if the report proved to be correct, I would have something further to say about his case. I would that poor Saxon had lived to make known with his own lips the shocking manner in which he had been treated, but as he now lies beneath the sod it is clearly my duty as a conscientious journalist to speak for the dead, regardless of consequences to the living, though it causes me great pain to do so, for I feel that what I have to say will inevitably bring discredit on someone, and just as likely as not on the wrong one.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On my return to camp after an absence of two days, I found the place deserted. Camp had been "struck," and the squadron to which poor Saxon belonged had entrained for Marandellas. Knowing that a number of New Zealanders were in the hospital, an old building which had been re erected at the end of the paddock a day or two previously, stretched out on a heap of straw in a more or less neglected state, I immediately proceeded to the hospital to see what had become of the unfortunate patients for whom I had many times felt in inclined to intercede but of course would only have laid myself open to be told to mind my own business, as it was no part of my business as a correspondent to interfere with camp arrangements.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My feelings on entering the building may be more easily imagined than described when to my surprise I found one solitary occupant, the emaciated form of Trooper F. Saxon, once a fine, strong young fellow, whose acquaintance I had made during the voyage. There, on the dirty floor, in the midst of swarms of flies, fragments of some decomposed food and dirty utensils, the poor fellow lay as helpless as a child, with nothing but this filthy chaos and the dirty, dismal walls of the building and complete solitude to cheer his rapidly expiring spirits.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A second glance was not necessary to convince me that my appearance had intensified the cause of the poor man's grief, for his eyes were still full of tears, and no wonder. I never in my life saw such a scandalous state of things. If the poor man had been a common criminal he could not have been treated in a more brutal manner.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In reply to my inquiry as to his condition he said, “I am well enough, only I feel dreadfully weak. I have been starved. I have had nothing to eat since evening, this was at 4 p m yesterday, when I had a bit of biscuit and a drop of tea. I am supposed to get beef tea and cornflour, but I have only had it once or twice. When I complained to the man who is supposed to attend to us he told me to get up and attend to myself or go without. I have not been able to walk for some time, I have been too weak. No one seems to take any interest in us or care whether we live or die. None of the officers have been near us.” Contradicting himself, he said, “Well, yes, Lieutenant Collins frequently came to see us, but most of the Auckland officers called almost every day to see their men.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These statements, of course, were not made exactly in the order in which they are given, and in justice to the dead I may add that they were not made in a vindictive tone or spirit. Far from it. The poor fellow was too much overcome to entertain ill feeling towards anyone even though it was certainly deserved. I felt very indignant to learn that a helpless fellow countryman had been treated in such a heartless manner, and expressed my determination to let the New Zealand public know how the field hospital was being conducted.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But poor Saxon burst into tears and said, “Oh, please don't say anything about it just now. It would kill my poor mother if she knew how I was being treated.” It was most affecting. I shall never forget the incident -- to see an unfortunate young fellow, once strong and active, crying and sobbing as though his heart would break, evidently conscious that his end was near and that he would see his aged mother no more.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I, of course, did my best to pacify him, and went immediately to the staff officer to see what could be done for the poor fellow. I explained that he was in a dying condition without food, attendance or necessaries of any kind, and that he had been in that condition for 24 hours The officer sent two stretcher bearers away for the invalid at once, with instructions to remove him to the hospital ship without delay.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For reasons which will be appreciated by all intelligent readers, I have remained silent up to present moment, but I have no hesitation in saying that poor Saxon’s death was largely, if not entirely, due to neglect, and I say this fully conscious of the seriousness of the statement.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This sensational report was swiftly followed up on 8 October 1900 by a contradictory one in the same <i>Feilding Star:</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Trooper De Loree of the Third Contingent, who was invalided home from South Africa lately was in Palmerston on Friday. In conversation with a representative of the Manawatu Times, he alluded to a statement which had been published by the New Zealand Times concerning Trooper Saxon's death, and said he was anxious that certain facts supplied to him should appear in print, as he was </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">convinced the account published by the Times was incorrect.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trooper De Loree then proceeded to state that the steamer by which he returned from South Africa also brought, amongst others, three Australian Bushmen who had been sent down from Beira as invalids. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bushmen furnished many details concerning Beira and especially alluded to the hospital arrangements. They stated that in the same hospital as themselves was a young man named Saxon, belonging to one of the New Zealand contingents.The Bushmen had become acquainted with Saxon and they gave an account of his illness and how he eventually died.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At this time nothing was known on board the ship as to the statements made regarding the alleged neglect of Saxon, and Trooper De Loree says the Bushmen, unsolicited, praised the hospital in which Saxon and themselves were placed, and specially stated there was no fault to be found with their treatment.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trooper De Loree says, in the face of the statements made to him by the Bushmen, he does not believe Saxon was in any way neglected, as there was nothing to be gained by the men telling him a wrong story, and even then when it was related to him none of them on board ship had any idea that a statement had been forwarded to New Zealand with regard to Saxon. Trooper De Loree says Colonel Hoad, of the First Australian Horse, has the names of the Bushmen referred to, which the Colonel will be only too willing to supply should further information be required.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here is Fred's father’s letter to the editor of the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Feilding Star,</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 25 April 1901 [unfortunately the issue of 17th is unavailable] and it is clear John Saxon was not happy with the explanation he eventually received from the man in charge, <a href="http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/Cyc01Cycl-fig-Cyc01Cycl1371b.html" target="_blank">Col. Joe R. Sommerville.</a></span></span><br />
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SAXON<br /><br />TO THE EDITOR:<br /><br />SIR, -- In your
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re the treatment of my late son Trooper Saxon. I can only say the Times
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here is another side to the story from <i>The Manawatu Times</i>, 7 June 1901, Although the correspondent Alfred Morton definitely reported from Rhodesia, this Trooper Houston says he never went there! Dislike of reporters? Selective memory?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Tikokino correspondent of the H.B. Herald supplies the following: Trooper Houston, of the New Zealand Fourth Contingent, who has just returned from South Africa, is visiting relatives in this district, and has met with a cordial welcome here. Trooper Houghton has given most graphic accounts of the doings of the Fourth and Fifth Contingents in South Africa, and he says that the letter which was sent from Beira by a correspondent which referred to the illness and death of the late Trooper Saxon was a wilful misrepresentation of the facts of the case.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All that was possible to be done was done for the dying man, and the reason why the other officers besides Captain Pringle (Captain Pringle did visit the sick trooper) did not go to see Trooper Saxon was because they were down with fever themselves. The correspondent who wrote the misleading letter did not go with the contingents to Rhodesia, and he was "not missed" when left behind.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alfred Morton did not alter his story. Here are some links to various reports in the same vein - including the possibility of bringing the matter before a Royal Commission - but whether Fred Saxon's father and family ever received a satisfactory explanation or apology is unknown. (Any descendants or others reading this who can throw further light on the matter, please do contact me to set the record straight.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are a number of genealogical sources online<a href="https://www.myheritage.com/names/john_saxon" target="_blank"> </a>for the pioneering Saxon family in New Zealand. One describes a memorial service being held
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Private John Kiley, Trooper of the 4th contingent of the Victorian
Imperial Bushmen, Service No. 418, lies either in grave No 2 or No 7, depending
on which source you follow as per the <a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/mashonaland-east/anglo-boer-war-graves-paradise-plot-cemetery-marondera" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a>. As with others buried
there, there is much confusion and even a mix-up with
another trooper called Kelly, but the Australian Boer War records are pretty clear
as to his name being Kiley. See the<a href="http://members.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer_more.cgi?record=11485" target="_blank"> Boer War database</a>. He is also officially commemorated at the <a href="https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1713498?search" target="_blank">Australian War Memorial </a>in Canberra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">John Kiley was born in 1870, possibly in Garvoc, Victoria, the eldest
of ten children born to Irish immigrants to Australia, Patrick Kiley (1846-1928)
originally from Marlfield, Clonmel in Tipperary, and Annie Welsh (1845-1905) who
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More information about John Kiley is found in the excellent and eye-opening work on the 3rd and 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen, <i><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i>by Robin Droogleever, which tells the stories of Australian volunteers to the Boer War in considerable detail. What is particularly interesting - and at times almost disturbing - is the incompetence and mismanagement at all levels and general disarray that accompanied a good part of Australia’s contribution to the Boer War and led to irritation, outright anger and even ill-advised actions on the part of its participants. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Commenting on any of this in depth is far from the remit of this blog which is purely a genealogical research project into a handful of individuals buried in one cemetery, but the book is highly recommended reading for anyone who wishes to study the topic in greater depth. Also, many of Droogleever’s sources are not available in the public domain and his book is invaluable in it is the only source of many photos and extracts of diaries and journals that have not been reproduced elsewhere and are still in private hands.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As our John Kiley never got to see active service, the fighting campaign detailed in the book is not relevant to him. The biographical entry matches most information available elsewhere with the addition of an actual birth date, religion and physical characteristics:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boigbeat,_Victoria" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">Boigbeat</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> is in the</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallee_(Victoria)" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"> Mallee</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, a region of sand and salt bush, with the odd scattering of red gums. Life there in the latter part of the 19th Century would have been extremely tough and challenging with droughts and dust storms and plagues of mice, rabbits and grasshoppers, but the Kiley family would have learned how to cope, to be self-sufficient and enterprising in order to
survive and make some sort of success of it. He was probably an excellent horseman
and used to roughing it outdoors in rugged terrain. Temperatures in the Mallee can be extreme, searing heat in the summer, frosts in winter. Even today, it can be a daunting environment for any soft city dweller.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What made John Kiley, a Roman Catholic of Irish origins, give
up his farming and decide to go a’soldiering on behalf of Queen Victoria is
unknown, but the fact that his future commanding officer, Captain Joseph
Dallimore, DSO, came from the Warrnambool area and that Kiley’s family had previously lived in
Garvoc not far away hints at some possible link.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and shooting skills and no doubt John would have passed these without difficulty. After
training at “Australia’s Aldershot”, otherwise <a href="http://www.discovermorningtonpeninsula.com.au/fascinatingfacts/langwarrin-flora-fauna.php" target="_blank">Langwarrin</a>, the contingent and
their horses sailed on the <i>Victorian </i>for Africa, arriving at Beira, Portuguese
East Africa [Mozambique], on 23 May 1900.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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place built on sand” and riddled with fever due to the swampy malarial land
behind it. Horses fell ill from diseases such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_horse_sickness" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">African horse sickness</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanders" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"> glanders</a><a href="http://glanders./" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Men who didn’t get sick from fever or dysentery and had too
much time on their hands often got drunk or indulged in the usual
attractions of a seedy cosmopolitan port with the inevitable problems with discipline.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Captain Joseph Dallimore was increasingly annoyed with the delay but by
the time “D” Squadron was ready to move on from Beira he tells us that: “<i>Two men, Alexander Gillanders [559]
from Cargarie and <b>John Kiley</b> [418] from Boigbeat were left behind, having been
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While John Kiley was on the hospital ship, his squadron embarked on the journey from Beira</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to Marandellas (approximately 190 km/118 miles)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> by train. On the way, men continued to fall ill, some of them dying and being buried at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nhamatanda" target="_blank">Bamboo Creek</a>, the point on the
railway where they had to transfer from the narrow Portuguese railway to the
broad gauge one that had been constructed for Cecil Rhodes’ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company" target="_blank">Chartered Company</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog?topic_id=1115703" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen</span></a></div>
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officer Joseph Dallimore are in the </span><a href="https://open.abc.net.au/explore/72370" target="_blank">Warrnambool Art Gallery.</a><span style="background-color: white;"> (Dallimore was tragically drowned with other family members off Cape Otway in 1905.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* From Banjo Paterson's poem "Clancy of the Overflow". <i>"And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended and at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars"</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span></div>
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Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-46679892394564710362017-06-28T08:27:00.001+10:002017-08-20T06:52:13.197+10:00"For pity's sake, don't shoot 'em"<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With my current research into a group of forgotten participants in the Boer War who lie in a small cemetery in Zimbabwe, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/breaker-morants-possessions-may-have-been-found-at-tip/8655516" target="_blank">this ABC News item</a> is timely as it tells of a great find of items at a rubbish tip in New South Wales which are connected to <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/morant-harry-harbord-breaker-7649" target="_blank">Harry Harbord Morant</a>, known as the "Breaker" who is a legendary and controversial figure in the history of Australia and perhaps better known for the manner of his death than his life with a -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-style: italic;">" ...reputation as horse-breaker, drover, steeplechaser, polo player, drinker and womanizer, from 1891 he contributed bush ballads to the Sydney </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-style: italic;">Bulletin</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333;"><i> as 'the Breaker'. When the South African War broke out in 1899 he enlisted in Adelaide in the 2nd Contingent, South Australian Mounted Rifles ..." </i> [Australian Dictionary of Biography.]</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2017/s4692782.htm" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a video link (may not be available in all countries) in which an expert verifies the items as connected to Morant, included his bandolier which perfectly matches that shown in this photograph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Morant was famously (and very briefly) married to another controversial Australian legend, the anthropologist,<a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bates-daisy-may-83" target="_blank"> Daisy Bates</a> (see my companion blog about women, <a href="https://thehistorybucket.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/desert-queen-of-never-never.html" target="_blank"><i>The History Bucket</i>)</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He was also the subject of a major Australian film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaker_Morant_(film)" target="_blank">Breaker Morant</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/moranth/poetrybulletin.html" target="_blank">The Poetry of Breaker Moran</a>t</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The last poem -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BUTCHERED TO MAKE A DUTCHMAN'S HOLIDAY</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Harry ("Breaker") Morant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In prison cell I sadly sit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A d[amne]d crest-fallen chappie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And own to you I feel a bit -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A little bit unhappy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It really ain't the place nor time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To reel off rhyming diction -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whilst waiting cru-ci-fiction!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But yet we'll write a final rhyme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">No matter what "end" they decide -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Quick-lime or "b'iling ile", sir?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We'll do our best when crucified</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To finish off in style, sir!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But we bequeath a parting tip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For sound advice of such men,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who come across in transport ship</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To polish off the Dutchmen!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you encounter any Boers</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You really must not loot 'em!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if you wish to leave these shores,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For pity's sake, DON'T SHOOT EM!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if you'd earn a D.S.O.,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is: "ASK THE BOER TO DINNER!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's toss a bumper down our throat -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before we pass to Heaven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And toast: "The trim-set petticoat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We leave behind in Devon."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At its end the manuscript is described as <i>The Last Rhyme and Testament of Tony Lumpkin</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First published in <i>The Bulletin</i>, 19 April 1902.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The closing credits of the movie are particularly moving, with Edward Woodward singing <i>Soldiers of the Queen.</i></span></div>
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<br />Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-62586261962923100002017-06-17T19:19:00.001+10:002017-09-06T10:14:53.488+10:00The Chronicles of Hamilton<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is a fascinating connection between a famous lion doorknob in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and one of those men who died during the Anglo-Boer War and now lies far from his native land in a quiet corner of Paradise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (My initial blog post about this Boer War cemetery in Zimbabwe<a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/remembering-road-to-paradise.html" target="_blank"> can be read here</a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The grave of Captain H.C.W. Hamilton of the 3rd (Queensland) Mounted Infantry Contingent <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">*</span></b> is the subject of quite a bit of confusion according to the <a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/mashonaland-east/anglo-boer-war-graves-paradise-plot-cemetery-marondera" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a> due to various authorities being involved in the reporting of the deaths and markers being made with errors. One cannot even be sure H.C.W. is where the cross says he is.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also, on the cross the date of his death is out by a year and in fact he died on 12 July 1900.
This also means that H.C.W. died for “Queen and Empire” not “King and Empire”, as
King Edward VII did not ascend the throne until 22 January 1901 when Queen
Victoria died. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It does not help either that H.C.W. accompanied the force but was never an
official member of the <a href="https://d2uipk7udysvkd.cloudfront.net/images/collection/bundled/RCDIG1069377.pdf" target="_blank">3rd Queensland Contingent </a>and therefore does not appear
in many of the usual Australian Boer War records. Naturally, this begs the question, why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first record connecting H.C.W.
Hamilton to Australia is a passenger list for the <i>Duke
of Buckingham</i>, a ship carrying assisted immigrants that sailed from London on
4 November 1885 and arrived in Brisbane on 4 January 1886. He travelled Second
Class, no occupation mentioned, aged 30. Thus one might assume a
birth year of about 1856.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With no matching birth records for him in
England, the next clue was found in a <i>Brisbane Telegraph</i> newspaper report of his death dated 16 July 1900 which mentions
the North Irish militia and from which it also appears he had been much younger than
stated on the passenger list.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus a birth in Ireland looked likely, also that he had some status; enough to warrant several paragraphs in a colonial newspaper. <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">**</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It turns out that Hugh Cecil Waldegrave Hamilton <b><span style="color: red;">^</span></b> was born on 17 November 1864 in
Rathmines, Dublin, which would have made him just 22 when he arrived in Australia.</span></span></div>
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Warren) to the Baronetage of Borlase Warren that included a number of prominent individuals who had served in the Royal Navy, as Members of Parliament and Sheriffs of Nottingham. <span style="color: red;"><b>+</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white;">H.C.W.’s father was The Reverend Thomas Robert Hamilton, with </span>many churchmen in his lineage and a descendant of an aristocratic
Scottish family sent to Ulster in the early 17th Century by King James I. The Reverend, said to be an excitable individual with fierce opinions, including a hatred of Catholics, had been a chaplain in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War and later a curate at Holy Trinity Church in Rome and ultimately the Rector of St. Mark's, Dundela, Belfast.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thomas and Mary had four children, two girls and two boys, but it was the younger sister of H.C.W., Florence (Flora) Augusta Hamilton (1862-1908) who left her mark in surprising ways.<b> </b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>#</b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Flora went to Queen's University in Belfast (then Royal University of Ireland) from which she graduated with 1st Class Honours and a degree in Mathematics</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">. It was</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> very unusual for a woman to go to university and study such subjects at that time. She later went on to to marry Albert James Lewis and o</span></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ne of her sons was Clive Staples
Lewis, best known to the world as the famous author of the <i>Chronicles of Narnia </i>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis" target="_blank">C.S. Lewis</a></b>. </span></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">C.S. was only about 2 years old when his uncle H.C.W. died.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">...According
to Sayer [another biographer] Thomas and Mary were failures as parents -
neither knowing how to make their children happy nor how to raise them without
giving any of them preferential treatment. This they often did to Cecil
[H.C.W.] and Lilian. Also, Gussie [the other son] was so disliked by his father
that he refused to help him pay for his education as he helped the other
children. And even though he eventually made good for himself, Gussie, in
response, became completely self-centered and unkind to others, even to his
mother and to his close friends. Hooper [another biographer] also notes that
Cecil, after finishing his education and failing to obtain a commission in the
Royal Army, emigrated to Australia - where he worked and served in their army,
eventually dying in South Africa in 1900. Even Flora, with her great education
at Queen’s University, Belfast, completed in 1886, as far as is known, failed
to do anything with it, merely functioning as another servant for her mother.
It would still be another eight years before she married Lewis’s father,
Albert. Green and Hooper, among many other biographers, have noted how Thomas
Hamilton misused Albert’s romantic interest in Flora for his own benefit,
expecting Albert to travel with or make preparations for him, serving his hoped
to be future father in law much as Jacob served Laban for Rachel.</span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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disgrace them in some way and was thus packed off at the age of 22 to the colonies,
a typical “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance_man" target="_blank">remittance man</a>”? Or did he leave of his volition simply to get away from family dysfunction or impossible expectations and find his own way in life? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A not uncommon scenario in high achiever families, both then and now.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps that door of the rectory was intentionally banged shut by H.C.W. in 1885, who was never to return. Was he considered a black sheep? </span></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Did C.S. Lewis ever know the real reasons his uncle went off to Australia and how he died </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of dysentery</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in Africa? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(If any student of the life and works of C.S. Lewis has any information to add in this connection, I would love to hear from you.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">* <span style="background: white;">This
contingent consisted of 320 mounted infantry and was commanded by <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tunbridge-walter-howard-8876" target="_blank">Major W. H. Tunbridge.</a> It sailed from Brisbane on 1
March 1900 on the <i>Duke of Portland</i>
arriving at the Cape on 3 April and was then sent to Beira, Mozambique, where it arrived in the middle of April. The contingent became part of the Rhodesian Field Force and
travelled the first 500 kilometres overland, first via railway to Marandellas and then using other modes of transport, in coaches and wagons and on foot, another 500 km to Bulawayo in the west of the country. Exposure to deadly diseases such as malaria and dysentery while in Portuguese East Africa was to play havoc with the health of the troops.</span></span></div>
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Hamilton joined A Battery of the Queensland Regiment of Royal Australian
Artillery as a probationary lieutenant on May 14; 1890. He was promoted to be
lieutenant on July 23, 1890. On February 25, 1895, he was promoted to the rank
of captain. He resigned his appointment, and was placed on the unattached list,
on November 18, 1896. Captain Hamilton went to South Africa with the third
contingent, but not as a member. He was granted a free pass to South Africa,
whither he went with a view of seeing active service. Captain Hamilton, at the
time of his death was 35 years of age. He formerly belonged to the North Irish
militia. The Defence Force authorities have received an official message from
the officer commanding the lines at Marandellas, dated July 13, as follows:
"Captain H. C. W. Hamilton, Queensland Mounted Infantry, died yesterday of
dysentery at Marandellas." This seems to indicate that Captain Hamilton
accompanied the Queensland third contingent as far as Marandellas, although he
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">^ With many thanks to a fellow member of Ancestry, V. Fawcett, for tracking down this information for me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">+ The family name lives on in a quite a different way with <i><a href="http://www.sirjohnborlasewarren.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Sir John Borlase Warren </a></i>being a popular gastro pub in Nottingham, UK!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/he-was-only-nineteen.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>He was Only Nineteen</b></a></span><br />
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<a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/farewell-to-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Farewell to Paradise</b></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 31 May 2017, </span><a href="http://www.bwm.org.au/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">a new war memorial</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> will be dedicated in
Canberra. It has been a long time in the planning and those Australians who took part in the Anglo Boer War in Southern Africa between 1899-1902 will
finally be recognised and will take their place along with all those others who are commemorated in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Parade,_Canberra" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">AnzacParade</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Boer War may now be far beyond living memory, but its
echoes resonated in my own African childhood as my father had many elderly friends and
acquaintances who had served in that War and always had many tales to tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s a morning in July 1973. One of those sunny, yet cool and
crisp days that anyone who has experienced the Southern African high veld in
winter will know. The air is bone dry and has been this way
for a few months already and it’s unlikely there’ll be any more real rain until
November. The nights can be very cold and one can still see the haze and smell the
smoke from charcoal fires.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My mother is too ill to join us, but my father and I go for
a stroll. He says he wants to show me something that he only discovered
recently; down beyond where the modern urbanised First Street peters out onto an old pioneer route, the Lendy Road.</span></span> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An African idles his way past us on a bicycle, a woman with
a baby on her back carries a large tin can on her head, water or perhaps
cooking oil.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(It was the one thing that struck me when I first went to
live in Australia, the desperate loneliness of its bush compared to that of Africa.
You can travel endless miles in Australia without ever
seeing another living soul. But you are never alone on African roads. No matter
how far from civilization or the nearest town or village you might think you
are, someone will always come along, greet you with a smile, and pass on.)</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dad diverts off the Lendy Road and we walk along another
track until we come to a rusty barbed wire fence. It surrounds a small cemetery partly overgrown with acacias and msasa trees. A number of the graves are bordered with
roughly hewn stones and have military crosses at the head.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It’s called Paradise </i>says Dad. <i>I’ve been told some of them are Australians who signed up for the Boer War. Think most of them contracted
fever out in Portuguese East and died here in the hospital at Marandellas.
Maybe they never even saw action</i>.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Apart from the gentle rattle of leaves in the msasa trees
and the slight movement of the brown dry grass between the graves, it
is peaceful enough although it doesn’t feel like any kind of Paradise to me. I'm
sad that these men died and were buried such a long way from home. I wonder who they were. Some
of the military inscriptions are easier to read than others which are rusted or faded.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There’s also another marker that seems out of place. A woman
who died in 1935. Why is she on her own here with these soldiers? Dad says he might ask around in town, see if he can find out who she was. </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We wander back home. Dad stops briefly to sketch one of the cycling
Africans on the Lendy Road that will later go into one of his paintings.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With so many other things on my mind, I forget all
about the Paradise Cemetery for the next forty-odd years until somehow I
stumble across it again on the Internet. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The photographs show it looks exactly the same as that day I was there with my Dad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the world has changed so much and modern technology and the widespread
availability of genealogical resources now gives us the opportunity to discover things we could never have imagined before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As can be seen from reading the <a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/mashonaland-east/anglo-boer-war-graves-paradise-plot-cemetery-marondera" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide </a>page, there is quite a bit of confusion over exactly who is buried in Paradise with names, units and even
whether the correct marker is assigned to each grave, but my next few posts
will investigate some of the people - Australians and others - who lie there beneath the msasas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps I will discover very little, a photograph if I'm lucky, but anything that I find that gives an echo of life back to these lost men of the Boer War (and that sole woman) will be rewarding enough.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All posts in this series on Digging the Dust</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/remembering-road-to-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">The Road to Paradise</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/06/the-chronicles-of-hamilton.html" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">The Chronicles of Hamilton</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/from-sunlit-plains-extended-to-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">From the sunlit plains extended</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/the-man-who-never-reached-paradise.html" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">The man who never reached Paradise</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/more-lost-australians.html" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">More lost Australians?</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="color: #93c47d;"><a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/brothers-and-others.html" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">Brothers and Others</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/he-was-only-nineteen.html" target="_blank"><b>He was Only Nineteen</b></a></span><br />
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<a href="https://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/farewell-to-paradise.html" target="_blank"><b>Farewell to Paradise</b></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With special acknowledgement and thanks to </span><a href="http://zimfieldguide.com/" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">ZimFieldGuide</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Rhodesian+field+force+graves+in+Zimbabwe+from+the+South+African+War%3A...-a083477088" style="color: #93c47d; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">Sabretache</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and to Robin Droogleever whose book </span><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/That-Ragged-Mob-Robin-Droogleever/9780646518169" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">That Ragged Mob </a></i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been an invaluable resource in re-discovering some of these lost men of Empire.</span><br />
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Regina of Arbeiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03515362716195281135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744566633100993514.post-53926243302376717022017-04-30T16:25:00.000+10:002017-04-30T17:05:14.832+10:00Do unto others. The strange tale behind an Orkney memorial<div class="MsoNormal">
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working class backgrounds. These days, the majority seem to be career silver-tails with fancy degrees
in politics, economics or the law or have otherwise been aided by inherited or
acquired wealth and a network of privileged connections.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So the legacy of one old-style Senator from South Australia who is all
but forgotten in Australia and his Scottish homeland lingers on in a rather curious inscription on a memorial stone in the far-off Orkney Islands that reflects a kindness and
generosity of spirit that is also too often lacking in our modern-day leadership.</div>
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A STONE OF HONOUR<br />
TO<br />
ZU SING KANG<br />
R.F.A. TUSCALUSA<br />
WHO DIED AT SCAPA FLOW<br />
2ND MAY 1916<br />
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MY WITNESS IS IN HEAVEN MY<br />
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ERECTED AS A MEMORIAL OF A KIND<br />
ACT DONE BY A CHINAMAN IN NURSING<br />
A BLINDED WORKING MAN (AFTERWARDS<br />
SENATOR McGREGOR OF THE AUSTRALIAN<br />
COMMONWEALTH)<br />
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Gregor McGregor was born in Kilmuir, Scotland,
in 1848, the son of a gardener. His childhood was spent in Argyllshire and
County Tyrone, Ireland. Whatever schooling he received seems to have been
sporadic and he was largely self-educated. When he turned 18 in 1866 he returned
to Britain and trudged his way up and down the country doing a series of hard laboring jobs before
finding work in the Clyde shipyards where he first encountered organized workers' groups. Between 1869-76 he was active in the trade union movement and was
successful in getting a reduction in hours for blue-collar workers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1877, McGregor sailed to South Australia as an assisted
migrant. While working as an agricultural laborer and
clearing scrub at <a href="http://www.tageo.com/index-e-as-v-05-d-m2215855.htm" target="_blank">Baroota</a>, he was hit in the eye with a wood splinter. In great
pain, he managed to walk all the way to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Pirie" target="_blank">Port Pirie</a> (about 30 miles) but was
unable to find any medical attention when he got there. Sand blight added to
his agony nearly blinding him in the second eye as well but he managed to get on board a vessel bound for Adelaide. There were eleven white men and one Chinese man on
board. McGregor said <i><b>“… the Chinese was the only man who took the slightest
notice of me and gave me every care and attention.</b>”</i> </div>
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This man carefully tended to McGregor and helped to
wash out his eyes. Once the boat arrived at Adelaide, he accompanied
McGregor to a hospital where he finally obtained help. The Chinese man refused
any recompense and just said: <b>“<i>No, some day you may do for a countryman of mine what I
have done for you.”</i></b></div>
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McGregor, however, lost the sight of the injured eye and
the other was so badly affected that he remained virtually blind for the
rest of his life, but from that day forward McGregor would not hear a word said against
Chinese people and often related the story of this unknown man’s great kindness
when those of his own race had treated him with scorn.</div>
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McGregor had first married in 1880 but his wife died soon afterwards. His second marriage in 1882 was to a widow, Sarah Anne (Ritchie) Brock and he became step-father to her son Charles.</div>
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His jobs included
being a stonemason and a navvy on the railways. All the while he continued to
be active in trade unions becoming a commanding public speaker. McGregor was elected to the South Australian legislature and soon became one of
South Australia’s most effective politicians, later the first Labor Party
Senator in the new Commonwealth of Australia Parliament in 1901.</div>
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Bluff and hearty, McGregor had no time for snobbery or prejudice, religiosity, and wasteful extravagance. He supported a
minimum wage for workers, female suffrage, age pensions, land tax, and the white Australia policy - a policy that
is now looked on askance but in fact McGregor did not see it in racist terms but actually believed it was the only way of
protecting the exploitation and near-slavery conditions that existed for imported workers like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaka_(Pacific_Island_worker)" target="_blank">Kanakas</a> and also many Chinese.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When McGregor died just after the outbreak of WW1 in August
1914, it was ironic that this man who ridiculed pomposity was given a grand
state funeral and was mourned by everyone who had known him. He was a man <b><i>“who came
from the masses and labored for the masses”</i> </b>and in spite of being nearly blind
was one of the best-informed Senators with a career that displayed:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“… a record of great and useful achievements attained by
determination and courage in the face of difficulties that would have broken a
less valiant heart and crushed a less resolute spirit</i>.”</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><b>“Men of the late Mr McGregor’s robust and patriotic type do
honor to the State and Commonwealth, and the loss of their public services is
more than a party misfortune; it makes the nation poorer”.</b></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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One can’t imagine such words being written about a politician
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And so back to the mysterious Stone of Honour memorial in the <a href="http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/74567/LYNESS%20ROYAL%20NAVAL%20CEMETERY" target="_blank">Lyness Cemetery,Orkney Islands</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As McGregor died around 18 months <i>before </i>the Chinese man Zu
Sing Kang (2 May 1916) the inscription is puzzling as it could not be him who
organised the stone, although it transpires that it may have
been the action of one of his brothers as an indirect tribute to the unknown Chinese man who
helped the Senator many years before. Perhaps it was also erected as an acknowledgement of all those unknown
Chinese men everywhere who served, suffered and died in the cause of white men. As Zu Sing Kang was a very old man when he died, could someone have actually tracked him down and identified him as the same man who helped McGregor and, if so, how?</div>
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However, according to this report in the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105411468?searchTerm=chinaman%20mcgregor&searchLimits=" target="_blank"><i>Daily Herald</i> of 14 June 1917</a>, this could not have been the case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“<b>… the natural conclusion that one might come to was that he
[McGregor] left money for such a memorial to be erected. But this is not
correct, for he never even discovered the Chinaman’s name so far as can be
discovered. The incident happened between 40 and 50 years ago, so if the Chinaman only died last year, he was a very old man, for he was well on in life when he
performed his long-remembered and kindly act.</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i><b>Mr. McGregor’s relatives know nothing of the erection of the
obelisk and when the matter was brought under their notice yesterday afternoon
they could offer no explanation. A peculiarity of the whole thing is that the
memorial is erected in England [sic. Scotland actually!] it is understood that
Mr. McGregor had a brother in Scotland and it is surmised that he might have shown
that appreciation of the kindness done to the man whom Australia honored so
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<i><b>In any case, it is good to know that kindness is so
appreciated, and makes one feel the good is not always interred with their
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<u>Age:</u> Unknown<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Occupation</u>: Firemen’s Cook<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Birthplace</u>: Ningpo<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Last Place of Abode</u>: Shanghai<o:p></o:p></div>
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TASCALUSA</div>
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136062<o:p></o:p></div>
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Middlesbrough<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 May 1916<o:p></o:p></div>
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At Sea<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another entry shows that he died “At Sea. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Islay" target="_blank">Sound of Islay</a>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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There appears to have been two vessels during this era called <i>Tascalusa</i>, with No 136062 being a tanker as opposed to freighter. <a href="http://www.aukevisser.nl/uk/id359.htm" target="_blank">Here are some details of it,</a> apparently sunk in 1940.</div>
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<a href="http://biography.senate.gov.au/gregor-mcgregor/" target="_blank">Biographical Details Australian Senate</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Continued from <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/a-fatal-adventure-part-i.html" target="_blank">Part I</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After our intrepid lawyer and would-be merchant adventurer, the now </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dis</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Honourable James Erskine Murray slipped his moorings to his life in
Melbourne </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and scarpered in the <i>Warlock,</i> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">leaving behind a wife and children, an irate Judge Willis and
several writs for unpaid debts, he
headed for Hong Kong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At some stage he fell out with his merchant adventuring
companion, Oliver Gourlay, about whom the “incoherency” continued in the colonial newspapers. One reported that
Gourlay was killed in a duel off Singapore with <i>Warlock’s</i> commander, one Lieutenant Sullivan, but Victorian <a href="http://access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/veo-download?objectId=090fe2738027777e&format=pdf&docTitle=Image&encodingId=Revision-2-Document-1-Encoding-1-DocumentData" target="_blank">Public Records Office probate</a> records for Gourlay’s
estate show he died on board the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bencoolen</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,
on 19 November 1843 on a voyage bound from Hong Kong to Sydney (just a few days days after Murray had left in another direction). No-one was arrested in connection with his death and there is no mention in the probate that it might have been a violent end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On arriving in Hong Kong, Murray had sold Warlock and entered into
a new partnership with a well-known local merchant, <a href="http://hkr1841-50.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/bowra-charles-woollett.html" target="_blank">Charles W. Bowra</a> <b>**</b> and
bought two other vessels, a 90 ton schooner, <i>Young Queen</i> (<i>Yonge
Queene</i> in some reports) and a 200 ton brig <i>Anna</i>, the Captains being A. Hart and H. Lewis respectively. Both vessels were heavily armed
with both large and small pivot guns and stern chasers. The crew’s personal
armaments included cutlasses, pistols and pikes - of which there were so many
it was said that there was hardly enough room for the trade goods, stores and
water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When word got around Hong Kong that Murray was mounting a
similar expedition to that of James Brooke, with possibly rich pickings for those who participated, it seemed he had no trouble finding 40 men eager to crew the ships plus officers who were kitted out in uniforms remarkably similar to those of the Royal
Navy. (<b>One of these officers was <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/mutiny-and-horrible-massacre-at-sea-3.html" target="_blank">Robert L. McNally</a> who was to have his
own gruesome adventure a few years later and who features in three earlier
blog posts beginning with <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/mutiny-and-horrible-massacre-at-sea-1.html" target="_blank"><i>Mutiny and Horrible Massacre at Sea</i>.</a>)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They sailed out of Hong Kong or Macao around 7-9 November 1843, arriving
about two weeks later off the coast of Borneo, calling in at a number of
Dutch settlements there. Although the Dutch were well established in much of
the East Indies, their hold in Borneo was slender, having just a few ports in
the south. Even so, they were fiercely protective of what they had and it isn’t surprising
that they were suspicious of Murray’s arrival.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From <i><a href="http://www.jjhc.info/HeathLeopold1907viewsborneo.htm" target="_blank">Views in the Eastern Archipelago</a></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How much local information Murray had when he began his
adventure has been debated, but most must have been unreliable because he
soon had problems - the seas around Borneo prickling with <a href="http://gotravelindonesia.com/index.php/destinations/sulawesi/the-original-pirates" target="_blank">Bugis pirates</a> although the superior firepower on board his two vessels soon put paid to some
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Early in February 1844 the expedition arrived at the mouth of a
river then called the Coti or Koti (really the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakam_River" target="_blank">Mahakam</a>) the most important
river in south-east Borneo that flowed through a region ruled by the <a href="http://kesultanan.kutaikartanegara.com/index.php?menu=History&lang=english" target="_blank">Sultan of Kutei </a>who had his capital at Tenggarong about 90 miles from the river’s delta
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As they travelled above the delta past the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samarinda" target="_blank">Samarinda</a>
and fired a salute, the ships’ crews were alarmed when the responding salute
came from powerful guns. They had good reason to be uneasy. What Murray and his
companions did not know was that this town - in fact much of the region - was
not controlled by Dayaks or Malays, but was under the ruthless control of the
Bugis, once the greatest seamen and traders of the East Indies who had been
ousted from their origins in the Celebes by the Dutch East India Company and
forced into becoming mercenaries and pirates. There is an apocryphal suggestion
that the word “bogeyman” had its origins with these fiercesome people but with their superior seafaring skills and wild ruthless nature, they could rightly be compared to
Europe’s Vikings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If Murray had known the true state of affairs, commonsense
should have alerted him to beat a hasty retreat, but he persisted in travelling
another 40 miles upstream from Samarinda to the Sultan’s capital, leaving in
his wake a dangerously hostile group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On arrival at Tenggarong, Murray’s envoys were received in
the Sultan’s place, at that time a building of thatch and bamboo. Although the
Sultan initially gave the impression of being agreeable to giving them permission
to trade in the area, he told them it would take time as he had to consult his
<i>datus</i>, or chiefs, as was the practice. Amicable events followed, including a
feast and a shooting match in which Murray was disconcerted to discover the
local marksmen to be extremely accurate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Palace at Tenggarong, c. 1930</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a few days everything was peaceful. Then Chinese traders
came alongside selling fresh produce and brought alarming news that Europeans were being held captive somewhere
nearby, that the Sultan’s <i>prahus </i>had recently pirated an English ship. A
surreptitious investigation proved there was truth to this story, but Murray’s
crews were refused access to the area where the prisoners were supposedly being held.
What Murray didn’t know was that at least 27 other European ships had been pirated in
recent years with their captains murdered or kept captive. While this was going
on, it was noticed that large numbers of boats full of armed men were passing
downstream where they would be capable of cutting off the visitors.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A gun from <a href="http://www.acant.org.au/Articles/MalayCannons.html" target="_blank">the archipelago region.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With all these alarm bells ringing, it is astonishing that even after an emergency meeting with Captains Hart and Lewis that Murray still persisted
with trying to gain the co-operation of the Sultan with a view to open up English enterprise and manufacture even though all the
evidence pointed to the Sultan scheming behind his back with the Bugis, who greatly hated Europeans. Murray
even proposed that either he himself, or one of his companions, be allowed to
reside at Tenggarong under the Sultan’s protection. The Sultan’s initial benign
approach changed, he was dismissive of Murray’s trade goods, including salt
and tobacco, told them they must be disposed of at Samarinda - the real heart of Bugis
territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In hindsight, one wonders at Murray’s continued efforts at
sticking around, especially when everyone witnessed houses being pulled down along the
shoreline and being replaced with lines of guns just a few hundred yards from
the ships. Finally, perhaps under urging of his companions, did he look at the only choices he had, either retreat downstream or to head further upstream or
inland and seek help from the Dayaks, but provisions were too low.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, in one of the most arrogant and futile moves, Murray
took a highhanded approach, demanded hostages from the Sultan in order to ensure
a safe withdrawal downstream, plus ordering the Sultan, “as a matter of duty”,
to release the European prisoners he had. To add further insults to the list,
Murray wanted recompense for the losses incurred through the treatment the
expedition had received, presumably meaning those he had incurred by the unprofitable trip to
Tenggarong. It is no wonder he had outstayed his welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 16 February Murray sent off a letter to the
Sultan, demanding either a senior minister or member of the Sultan’s family as
a hostage within two hours. Of course there was no reply, the response being
even more activity on the river. When Murray ordered a shot over the palace all
hell broke loose, gunfire from the batteries on shore and numerous war <i>prahus
</i>waiting in the shallows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amid a barrage of gunfire, <i>Anna</i> and <i>Young Queen</i>
managed to slip their anchors and with the aid of a light breeze began to float
downstream, pursued by over 50 war prahus that kept up a consistent fire of
round shot, grape and musketry. As they sailed, more hidden
batteries on the banks opened fire with other boats emerging from streams and
other points along the river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was slow progress and at one point <i>Anna</i> ran aground, only to be got off
with great difficulty by a boat from <i>Young
Queen</i>. All this time the running fight continued. When the light and wind
died in the pitch-black velvet night of the tropics, the firing from the
pursuers ceased and the two vessels were lashed together with a ship’s boat that towed them from the front. All lights were extinguished and it was hoped they
might slip past the fortresses of Samarinda unnoticed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reports of this night journey downstream differ in certain
aspects but it must have been terrifying. The Bugis started huge fires on the riverbank to
illuminate the river, firing off shots. When it became unwieldy to have the ships tied together, Murray considered putting all the men on <i>Anna</i> and abandoning <i>Young Queen</i>, with a time-fuse lit in the abandoned ship’s magazine
set to blow after <i>Anna</i> had drawn clear. This didn’t happen, but eight
volunteers - including our Robert McNally - remained on board the schooner as she limped on behind the brig.
With the unremitting battle the men were exhausted, but it seemed the pirates were
also too tired to continue so there was a lull in the proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But by dawn, things had worsened. There were <i>prahus</i> ahead of
and between the two vessels. Then both were forced to anchor because there
wasn’t enough depth of water to cross the bar at the head of the delta and had
to wait for the tide. For a time the attackers ceased and headed off in the
direction of a new victim, a Belgian ship <i>Charles
</i>which had grounded on a sandbank (the officers and crew of that vessel managed
to escape in their small boats and reach the safety of Makassar). But soon
<i>prahus </i>were back and the onslaught on Murray’s group became even more violent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">According to the statement of the surgeon, Dr. W. Sael, the
vessels were now fired at on all sides. Murray took a hand with the schooner’s
guns and while doing so, a shot struck him full in the chest. “My God!” were
the only words he was able to say before dropping to the deck dead.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The convolutions of the Makaham Delta.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In spite of the loss of their leader, the men continued to
fight for another seven hours until the tide rose and the ships were able to
cross the bar and finally the delta. Although still being
pursued, once they reached the open sea the vessels were able to pick up speed,
with the last shots fired in the evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This battle had lasted around 36 hours. As with everything to do with this fatal adventure, none of the various reports are totally reliable. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The casualties in the standard reference works and British newspaper reports state there were three dead and five wounded, but a letter written by that other adventurer from Melbourne, James Abrahams, to his father and which appeared in<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71630122?searchTerm=Captain%20H%20Lewis%20Borneo&searchLimits=" target="_blank"> </a></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71630122?searchTerm=Captain%20H%20Lewis%20Borneo&searchLimits=" target="_blank">The Port Phillip Patriot </a> </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had names that do not appear elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is a compilation of names from all sources - highlighted in case anyone reading this has family connections to any of the men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dead : <b>James Erskine Murray</b>, able seaman <b>James Dance/Dantry </b>and boatswain <b>John Thomson</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Severely wounded were volunteer <a href="http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/mutiny-and-horrible-massacre-at-sea-3.html" target="_blank"><b>Robert L. McNally</b></a> [mis-reported as McNyles] who received a bullet in the thigh, lost a finger and part of one hand; a ship</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">’s</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> boy </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Constance Fournette</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and volunteer </span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Benjamin Hart</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, brother of Captain Hart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Less serious were the correspondent <b>James Abrahams </b>himself, <b>William Sael/Saul</b> the surgeon, volunteer <b>Augustus Marsetti/Marzetti</b>, another seaman, <b>E. Congrave</b>, <b>John Miller,</b> gunner</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">’</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s mate and <b>William Thomson</b>, gunner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Honourable James Erskine Murray’s body was wrapped in the shredded company</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">’s</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> flag and committed to
the deep in the Makassar Strait the next morning, 18 February 1844.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The two ships arrived in the Celebes where the wounded were
landed. But the expedition’s misfortunes were not quite over. On her voyage
back to Hong Kong, mutiny broke out on <i>Young
Queen, </i>either because of the failure of the promised riches or maybe
the men anticipated they would not get paid. Captain Hart was forced to shoot
the ringleader. Presumably there was some later action regarding this, but that is beyond the scope of this story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Murray’s contemporaries with knowledge of Borneo had little
sympathy for his ill-advised adventure, for his “imprudent and unguarded
conduct” in a known dangerous area. But it was his ignorance of local
conditions, plus arrogance, that doomed the
expedition. He should never have gone far up river, leaving a hostile
settlement between his ships and safety and he should have made better use of
local knowledge. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Murray thoroughly misjudged the situation. It is no wonder he came to strife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Opinion over Murray’s real aim is divided. Some say he was
only ever interested in setting up a trading base, others that he was intent in
creating either a colony or even a personal fiefdom for himself. Either way,
his fatal adventure carries echoes of how personal ambition and a toss of the dice can change
history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Dutch were so alarmed by Murray’s attempt that they
tightened their control over Borneo, coming into conflict with the British in
the process and followed by years of diplomatic wrangling over rights to the region. This is the closing
paragraph from the B.R. Pearn article on the adventure:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thus Murray’s disastrous adventure had important
consequences. It led directly to the imposition of Dutch control over the east
coast of Borneo, and it initiated a dispute between the British and Netherlands
Governments which continued almost to the end of the century. Abortive though
the expedition was, it is nevertheless an episode of some note in the history
of the eastern archipelago</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.”</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The exact date of this image is uncertain.<br />It either shows the Sultan in question, A.M. Salehuddin, or possibly his successor, A.M. Salaiman, who was forced into co-operation with the Dutch.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, what happened to poor Isabella who had been left
behind in Melbourne? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Clearly in straitened financial circumstances, she had to move from Elibank House to poorer accommodation where her fifth child was born, a daughter who sadly died in December 1843. It seems Isabella did not learn of her
husband’s death until much very much later in August 1844 and after she had
returned to Britain with her children and two servants in the schooner, <i>Hawk.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book <i>Barristers Solicitors Pettifoggers </i>by Simon Smith contains
the only study of Hon. James Erskine Murray to give us some snippets of
information on Isabella, some letters, a few extracts from her diary and reminiscences of a
granddaughter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Isabella spent some time in Jersey with her family and many
years trying to generate income from her original family estates at Aberdona. She never remarried and endured other tragedies, outliving three of her children - son James
Hypolite Erskine Murray who died only aged 18 in 1853, daughter Jane Isabella died age 26 and
her other daughter Edith Katherine who married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bell" target="_blank">Dr Joshua Bell </a>(the Edinburgh
doctor on whom Arthur Conan Doyle based his Sherlock Holmes) and who died in 1874
aged 34. Isabella herself passed away in Edinburgh a few months later in March 1875.
Her surviving son, <a href="http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00176" target="_blank">Alexander </a>lived until 1907, with his grandson becoming the
13th Lord Elibank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aberdona House<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>** </b>The image on the linked webpage to Bowra and purporting to be Murray can’t possibly be correct. The uniform dates to a much later era, possibly early 1900s. The earliest known daguerreotype images of South East Asia were taken in the 1840s by Frenchman <a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1663/alphonse-eugene-jules-itier-french-1802-1877/" target="_blank">Alphone-Eugene-Jules Itier </a>during his travels in that region. These are said to have included Borneo and possibly copies may exist in some museum, but none are to be found online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Click here for a Youtube video showing the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B58kiUvRz_A" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">River Mahakam from Tenggarong today</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, a far cry from what Erskine Murray faced over 170 years
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/shop/barristers-solicitors-pettifoggers-profiles-in-australian-colonial-legal-history-by-simon-smith" target="_blank">Barristers Solicitors Pettifoggers, Profiles in Australian Colonial Legal History</a></i> by Simon Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3350801" target="_blank">Erskine Murray's Fatal Adventure in Borneo</a></i> by B.R. Pearn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also British Newspapers and Australian Newspapers available online via TROVE, Findmypast, or National Library of Australia</span><br />
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