Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:13 am
Hi All His name is Frank Newton Streatfield Rai Keynshamlighthorse
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Subject: Frank Newton Streatfield C.M.G. Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:38 am
Hi littlehand. The Fingoes according to Evelyn Wood were the remnants of 8 tribes which banded together after fleeing the zulus a few years earlier .. They fought on the British side in the Kaffir war of 77-78 . cheers 90th.
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:40 pm
Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:52 pm
It appears Frank was also a collector.
Frank N Streatfeild, resident magistrate in Kaffraria and commandant of native levies during the Ninth Frontier War of 1878, provides a particularly disturbing example:
'I brought a great many curiosities … of various descriptions, such as pipes, necklaces, assegais, beaded blankets, etc, etc. Whenever I saw a native with anything worth having, I at once proceeded to get an interpreter and have a deal. There was a ridiculous scene one morning when I was buying blankets from a Fingo woman. I bid very high for them, as I had no time to waste, nor did I desire to "marchander" with the dirty creatures. Though anxious to obtain the money offered, they were somewhat shy about uncovering their tawny hides, and as they parted with a petticoat or wrapper, they huddled up to the nearest woman, vainly endeavouring to cover their nakedness with the corner of the blanket of their next neighbour. I got much chaffed on the subject, and was told that I was positively indecent in bribing Fingo women to sell their garments, and go about the streets in a state of semi-nudity.'
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:57 pm
Click Here: Kafirland: A Ten Months' Campaign
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Subject: Two Photographs from REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD 'UN Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:09 pm
Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:29 pm
streatfield. nice one littlehand, would'nt want to mess with that top lot,they look so rough
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:57 pm
Thanks Pete.
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:30 pm
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] A youthful Frank Newton Streatfeild, aged 19 years. Photographed in Westerham, Kent. (John Young Collection.)
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Kenny
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Tue Oct 26, 2021 8:48 am
John,
Interesting that the present CO 1 R WELSH is Lt Col Rupert Streatfeild. I did ask him when we met last Friday whether he was related to Frank - he said he would investigate.
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Subject: Re: Frank Newton, C.M.G. Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:19 am
Kenny,
There is an obvious link to the 24th with Frank’s relative, Robert Champion Streatfeild.
Many years ago - through Alan Baynham Jones - I did meet one of the descendant family in the Forest of Dean.
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