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A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)

Item

Reynolds, Rex, “A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9678

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

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Item sets

The Frontier Wars

Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Butler Family Collection

Media

vital_21784+SOURCE1+SOURCE1.0.jpeg

Hierarchies

The Frontier Collection

• The 1820-Settlers (32 items)
• The Frontier Wars (92 items)
• The Development of Settler Towns (468 items)
  • Alice (40 items)
  • Bathurst (16 items)
  • Bedford (3 items)
  • Cathcart (5 items)
  • Cradock (200 items)
  • East London (22 items)
  • Grahamstown (91 items)
  • King William's Town (32 items)
  • Port Alfred (19 items)
  • Port Elizabeth (34 items)
  • Queenstown (6 items)

Reynolds, Rex, “A soldier's grave at Fort Wiltshire (Willshire)”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9678