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ciroferrara

Posts : 224 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 29 Location : exeter
 | Subject: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:53 pm | |
| i have just finished reading cecil d'arcy' biography , and it states that the location of where he died was marked by an iron cross before being stolen, all that remains are apparently the screws that held it to the rock face. any info? |
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impi

Posts : 2307 Join date : 2010-07-02 Age : 41
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:09 pm | |
| He died in October 1881, the actual date is not known, but between 8 August & 28 December in the Arnatola Forest. |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 224 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 29 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:27 pm | |
| those anyone know if the location is still readily known i.e photos |
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Mr Greaves

Posts : 747 Join date : 2009-10-18
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:29 pm | |
| Where is the Arnatola Forest. Nothing coming up on Google Earth. (Never herad of it) Anyone Know. Or did impi make it up. |
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John

Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 58 Location : UK
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:04 am | |
| Where is the Arnatola Forest. Good question. I can't find it either. Been looking for ages. (Anyone know) |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 224 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 29 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:22 pm | |
| according to his biography its near king williams town... and easily regognisable? |
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Dave

Posts : 1605 Join date : 2009-09-21
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:17 pm | |
| Not sure if this helps. But there is a refrence to Arnatola here.
On 9 March, five days after his arrival in Kingwilliamstown, and just days after Cunynghame’s departure for England, Thesiger was informed that a huge Ngqika force had eluded the patrols guarding the eastern approaches into the Amatolas, and reached the sanctuary of their former mountain stronghold. With the bulk of the army that Cunynghame had created policing the ravaged homeland of the Galekas, the only troops Thesiger could deploy in the Amatolas, were a few colonial commandos and the 2/24th, which was at that very moment disembarking at the port of East London. He gave the command of the Arnatola sector to Colonel Evelyn Wood, one of the special services officers who had accompanied him to South Africa.
Source: Military History Journal Vol 5 No 6 - December 1982 The Last Frontier War by Dr Philip Gon
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90th

Posts : 10186 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 64 Location : Melbourne, Australia
 | Subject: Where Cecil D'arcy FLH Died Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:14 am | |
| hi all. I checked the Index in ' From Midshipman To Field Marshall by Evelyn Wood . Page 7 . He refers to it as the Amatola Mountains . Page 9 . Next day I started with my interpreter , Paliso , who had accompanied me from the Amatola district , Kaffraria Page 27 -28 . '' The incessant work , however , now began to tell on me , and my glands swelled as they had done when I was overworked in the Amatola Mountains '' There is also a referance on page 85 which is MISSING from my copy !! :lol!: cheers 90th. |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 224 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 29 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:56 pm | |
| according to the biography his place of death is half a mile off the right hand side of the road from keiskama's hoek to stutterheim, 5-6 miles beyond st.mathews mission. |
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Ken Gillings
Posts : 205 Join date : 2009-10-20 Age : 73 Location : Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:17 pm | |
| As far as I am aware, Cecil D'Arcy (nephew of Robert D'Arcy) became a bit of a recluse and in 1881, he wandered off into the Amatola bush (near Keiskammahoek in the eastern Cape) and he died in a cave. His remains were subsequently recovered and he is buried in King William's Town. Regards, Ken |
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old historian2

Posts : 1095 Join date : 2009-01-14 Location : East London
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:06 pm | |
| Hi Ken. I read he fake his own death..
"He is also considered South African, though he probably considered himself British or Anglo-Irish. The Independent newspaper in London reported that the Captain famously faked his own death. "No longer is anyone likely to imitate Captain Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy of the Frontier Light Horse, who, having been awarded the VC in the Zulu wars, turned to drink. Later, a body wearing his clothes was found in a cave and, this being the pathology of a century ago, presumed to be his. Only many decades later was it learnt that D'Arcy had found a dead man lying in the snow, changed clothes with him, and gone to Natal, and lived out the rest of his life under an assumed name. He was once recognised in 1925, but swore his discoverer to the secret, which the man kept until D'Arcy died. "
But it appears no one knows why? |
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Ken Gillings
Posts : 205 Join date : 2009-10-20 Age : 73 Location : Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:41 am | |
| I'll dig around in my notes and try to find an answer. Regards, Ken |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 224 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 29 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:57 pm | |
| i personally am inclined that faking his own death is as ian knight put it : to be considered as such stories like lord lucan or the nana sahib |
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Chelmsfordthescapegoat

Posts : 2581 Join date : 2009-04-24
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:08 pm | |
| - Quote :
- is as ian knight put it
Ouch!!!!! |
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ciroferrara

Posts : 224 Join date : 2010-10-07 Age : 29 Location : exeter
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:16 pm | |
| i heard there was a picture of cecil darcy in the john young collection from the 1860's taken in kingwilliamstown?? |
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littlehand

Posts : 7086 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 52 Location : Down South.
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:14 pm | |
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1879graves

Posts : 3081 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:49 pm | |
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1879graves

Posts : 3081 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:21 pm | |
| [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]North British Daily Mail 25 January 1882 |
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1879graves

Posts : 3081 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
 | Subject: Re: place where cecil d'arcy FLH died Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:46 pm | |
| The Amatola Hiking Trail The Amatola Trail is reputedly the toughest and best hiking trail in South Africa. A Six day and five night hiking trail starting at Maden Dam near King Williams Town, traversing the incredible Amatola Mountains and ending in the iconic village of Hogsback. The trail is truly amazing and very strenuous so one needs to be prepared, however the views, remoteness, pristine indigenous forest and endless waterfalls make it one of, if not the, best hikes in South Africa. You must be fit and capable of hiking a minimum of 10 hours a day, never knowing what Mother Nature might throw at you. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] |
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