A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)

Title: A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)
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 Peninsular War, who took command in 1819.
Subject: Fort Willshire; Butler, Guy, 1918-2001
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/12971
Creator: Reynolds, Rex
Rights Holder: Reynolds, Rex
Provenance: Butler Family Photograph Collection
Type: Image
Format: jpg
Location - Physical Location: Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator: PIC/M 5272
useGuidelines: In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za

Item sets: Frontier Wars Collection; Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa; Butler Family Collection

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