A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)

Title: A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)
Creator: Reynolds, Rex
Subject: Fort Willshire Butler, Guy, 1918-2001
Type: Image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/12971
Identifier: vital:21784
Identifier: This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Identifier: PIC/M 5272
Description: In P E Raper's "New Dictionary of South African Place Names" ISBN 1868421902, is this entry, on page 105: *Fort Willshire - Former fort at the confluence of the Keiskamma and Rhwantsana Rivers, 23km south-south-east of Alice, at 32 59S, 26 55E. It was named in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Willshire, veteran of the Pensular war, who took command in 1819. * Officially approved name.
Description: F G Butler (donor)
Format: jpg
Relation: Butler Family Photograph Collection
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