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Date: 1931 Type: Memorial Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 32°48'51.64" S 27°11'16.91" E

Charles Theodore Bailie was the son of John Bailie, leader of the Bailie Party of the 1820 Settlers who arrived in Algoa Bay in South Africa and settled in the Albany District, south of the Fish River. (Find a Grave - accessed 2014 09 17) The first branch of TocH in South Africa was established, after World War 1, at St Matthews in Keiskammahoek. One of their activities was to identify sites where British soldiers died in the wars and erect commemorative plaques. Thus they put up the stone at Bailie's grave; then a composite memorial at the road junction at Mnqesha; a memorial at Boma Pass; a composite memorial in the cemetery at Keiskammahoek and one at the junction of the road at Burnshill /Fort Cox. Ref: Correspondence with Denver Webb: Historian Submitted by William MARTINSON ____________________ Transcription of plaque: ERECTED IN MEMORY OF LIEUT. CHARLES THEODORE BAILIE. A DISTINGUISHED 1820 SETTLER. - AGED 25 YEARS. - WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION TOGETHER WITH 30 MEN OF THE 1ST PROVISIONAL BATTALION. (COLOURED CORPS) ON 27TH JUNE, 1835. AND BURIED HALF A MILE DUE EAST OF THIS STONE. __________________ ALSO OF _______ SURGEON P. DAVIDSON. KILLED AT BAILIE'S POST 14TH FEB. 1852 PTE. THOMAS LEWIS. " " NTABAKANDODA 11TH APRIL " " WALTER BULLOCK. RABULA 16TH DEC " SERGT. W.A. SHAW ACCIDENTLY KILLED AT PIRIE BUSH 10TH MAR. 1878 __________________ ERECTED UNDER TOC H AUSPICES. IN MEMORY OF THESE ELDER BRETHREN 1931 All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.