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Click to view map Coordinates: | Wording on bronze plaque: ON THIS SPOT "Another public memorial to an individual settler is that unveiled on Signal Hill, East London, on the 19th November, 1936, in memory of Lieutenant John Bailie, R.N., recalling that on that spot one hundred years earlier he had hoisted a flag—the first step in the establishment of a harbour at the mouth of the Buffalo River and the foundation of the Fighting Port which was to play such a prominent part in the subsequent development of Kaffraria." (Hockly, 1947:239) Writings about this entry
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