← Die land

Bron SRC-625

eGGSA, Klaarstroom, Church of the Good Shepherd churchyard: the Boyd and Gishford war graves

photograph index · 'n geskrewe werk · geraadpleeg 2026-09-03

Soort
photograph_index
Bewaarplek
eGGSA Graves, Western Cape
Verwysing
Album 'klaarstroom/church'; captions BOYD J. -1901 and HIRSCHFORDS -1901; CEM-477
Geraadpleeg
2026-09-03

Maak die rekord oop ↗ die permanente identifiseerder, nie 'n soek-URL nie

Die sitasie soos dit gegee is

Album description, verbatim: 'The graves of Lance Corporal Boyd and Trooper Gishford can be found in this cemetery. They were both killed on 2 February 1901 during the skirmish in "Die Gang". Gishford's name is incorrectly engraved as Hirschford on the Guild Cross with an incorrect date of 4 February 1901.' *** THIS IS THE BURIAL GROUND'S OWN RECORD OF THE ACTION AND IT SETTLES THE DATE FOR PER-000518. *** Two soldiers died in Die Gang on 2 February 1901; Rose Willis's cameo has Johannes Kleu shot by one of them the same day, and her arithmetic agrees (he joined Scheepers on 15 January and 'the war had lasted only 18 days'). The 24 August 1901 of WMBR 1644 and the 11 February of the Military History Journal are both outliers. *** AND IT IS A WORKED EXAMPLE OF WHY A HEADSTONE IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY THE BEST EVIDENCE. *** The Guild Cross gets the man's NAME wrong and his DATE wrong. This project already knows the Remhoogte stone reads 'ca 1880' rather than a stated year. Three war graves from one action and not one of them carries a reliable date. This project already held both captions in the eGGSA harvest without connecting them to the story: BOYD J. -1901 and HIRSCHFORDS -1901, at CEM-477. *** [3 Sep 2026] THE TWO ACCOUNTS OF 2 FEBRUARY 1901 ARE NOT INDEPENDENT, AND THIS PROJECT TREATED THEM AS SUCH. *** The eGGSA cemetery information names its source in full: 'Sources: Marincowitz, Helena (1999): Prince Albert and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Prince Albert, Fransie Pienaar Museum, pp.15; 19-22.' SRC-172 already records that ROSE WILLIS'S CAMEO CITES THE SAME AUTHOR in its own bibliography. So the album description and the cameo are one narrative wearing two coats, and this project has been reading them as two witnesses. I told Frans an hour ago that the date rested on 'two soldiers' graves, the burial ground's own record of the action, and a cameo whose internal arithmetic agrees'. THE GRAVES ARE REAL AND INDEPENDENT; THE TWO NARRATIVES ARE ONE AUTHORITY. 2 FEBRUARY STILL STANDS as the better date - a local monograph working from local records beats a national compilation's field, and the cameo's own arithmetic (joined 15 January, 'the war had lasted only 18 days') checks against it - but it rests on ONE 1999 MONOGRAPH plus that arithmetic, not on three sources. *** AND THE MONOGRAPH IS TWENTY MINUTES FROM KLAARSTROOM AND WRITTEN BY FAMILY. *** Helena Marincowitz is PER-000945 in this model, 1931-2007, wife of Charles Patrick 'Pat' Marincowitz, already identified here as 'a greatly revered historian'. SRC-172 has called her work 'likely the single most valuable unread secondary source for the project' since it was written. Pages 15 and 19-22 of the 1999 book are now a specific request rather than a general one.

Woordeliks gehou. Hierdie projek weerspreek gepubliseerde genealogieë en stel 'n familie se eie mondelinge oorlewering reg, so elke bewering moet nagegaan kan word deur iemand wat nie in die vertrek was nie.

Wat op hierdie bron rus

Mense

Stories