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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:42 pm | |
| Charles Decimus O’Grady Gubbins was with the burial parties in May.
Which unit was he with??
Where did he go after the Zulu War??
Any time spent on this is greetly apprecated
Cheers DB14 |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:59 pm | |
| DB14. Here's some information. No doubt after reading this, you will be asking me more questions "The original of the order was found possibly elsewhere on the field that day and, if so, perhaps in Durnford’s portmanteau which had been slashed open by an assagai-stroke. Trooper A. Pearce, a Natal Carbineer, and Civil Surgeon Charles Decimus O’Grady Gubbins, Medical Officer with the l7th Lancers, both took papers from it; a fact only disclosed six years later in response to an advertisement placed in a newspaper by ‘ED, the Witness Office’. In an affidavit dated 11 June 1886, which was copied to Offy and reproduced in The Times of Natal, Gubbins swore that to the best of his recollection what he had sent to Frances in response to the advertisement was ‘an instruction from Lord Chelmsford to Colonel Durnford as to the commanding of the troops at Isandhlwana’. Like Crealock, Gubbins was not immaculate in recall; less than a year before he had told her that the papers did not contain the final order Harriette Colenso - a reporter of unquestionable integrity - informed The Times of Natal that Gubbins’s parcel had contained ‘nothing bearing on the events of that day at Isandhlwana’. What may be reasonably concluded from the available evidence? First, Offy Shepstone did not remove the final order from Durnford’s body. (32) Second, Fred Pearce’s letter about his brother’s find did not claim that the final order was among the papers picked up and Adrian Greaves article in the AZWHS Journal (33) appears to make clear that it was not. However, it cannot be definitely ruled out that he was the finder, though - for reasons which appear later in this article - it is unlikely. Gubbins was certainly not the discoverer, a fact that poses another interesting question. What motivated a relatively young professional man (At 31 years of age he was unlikely to have been suffering from seriously impaired memory) who went on to become Natal’s Colonial Secretary in 1906 (34) to furnish a sworn statement containing misleading information, inspiring yet another newspaper attack on the Colensos? It might have been part of Offy’s campaign to clear his name." |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:06 pm | |
| Littlehand, thanks very much for that. So he took papers from Durnfords portmanteau, if so why not take them all I never knew someone else found orders, i thourght it was just Pearce, thanks for that. So what unit was he with?? And was he in Natal when Laurd asked for the papers??? Cheers DB14 P.S. where did you get this from??? |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:09 pm | |
| Hi All Charles o'Grady Gubbins was a civil surgeon, after the zulu war he stayed in Natal, he married Maud Bradstreet [nee Scoble] on 1 December 1880 she was the widow of Robert Bradstreet Newcastle Mtd Rifles killed at Isandlwana, they lived at Ingagane Natal. Charles Died 7 November 1911 or 1912 and is buried in the Old Cemetery Newcastle Natal. A picture of his grave is on the South African National Grave Website. Rai Keynshamlighthorse |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:21 pm | |
| Thanks for that Cheers DB14 |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:27 pm | |
| But where papers taken from his body?? Most people say Pearce took them from his body, if this is so why does he not mention it?? He only mentions finding it on the field, in a portmanteau?? Bit confused hear Cheers DB14 |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:53 pm | |
| DB14. Not sure if you have seen this. If not have a read. Quite good.
Click Here |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:21 pm | |
| Hi Littlahand, My membership came though yesterday and i read the article. I agree its a very good account Thanks for that However it does not say that Pearce took them from his body, only he found his portmanteau on the field. How could he " Find them " on his body without searching it??? Surly someone would have mentioned this Cheers DB14 |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:40 pm | |
| Hi DB14 The Times, Saturday, Dec 09, 1911; pg. 11[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]British Medical Journal. 1912 January 2.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:43 pm | |
| Mate. There seems to be a lot going on with these various orders. I would image that after the loss of the camp, quite a few allegations were made for what purpose who knows. I also believe that certain individuals were sent out to retrieve them, before they fell into the wrong hands. |
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| Thanks 1879Graves Littlehand Crealock lied about the Durnford order to save His and Chelsmfords skin. The certain individuals sent out that you mention. Can you please expand on this? It seems unlikly to me anyone could be sent back to Isandlwana unprotected, search throw the many hundreds of dead, identify an individual and remove papers. Cheers DB14 |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:03 pm | |
| DB14. Your find this out quicker than I could.
How many people have be accused of taking items from Dunfords body. Or claimed to have removed them. |
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![Infomation on Mr Gubbins Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Infomation on Mr Gubbins Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:19 pm | |
| - littlehand wrote:
- DB14. Your find this out quicker than I could.
How many people have be accused of taking items from Dunfords body. Or claimed to have removed them. Hi LH, Just seen this Captain Shepstone removed 2 rings a knife and maybe some papers Dr Thrupp took Durnfords watch Pearce took a battered envolope from his pockets Thats it i think Cheers DB14 |
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| SIR CHARLES O'GRADY GUBBINS, M.D.,SENATOR OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
"The death took pltce in December, at Newcastle, Natal, of Sir Charles O'Grady Gubbins, a medical man who for many years played an active part in the professional life of South Africa, and for the past ten years or more had been a prominent figure in politics. He was born in co. Limerick in 1855, and received his later education at Trinity College, Dublin, where, after taking first-class honours in history and literature, lhe entered the medical faculty, and emerged therefrom in 1878 as M.B., Ch.B. When reinforcements were called for in the Zulu war of 1879, he accompanied the troops sent out as a civil surgeon, and when this engagement was over settled down in practice in Newcastle, Natal. There he held office as District Surgeon, and was in charge of the Base Hospital at Newcastle during the Boer war of 1881. He was also correspondingly employed during the last Boer war. On the first and third of these occasions his services were rewarded by a medal and clasp. Soon after the late war was over he gave up practice and, turning his attention to politics, was sent to the legislative chamber of Natal as senior representative of the Newcastle district. In hiis new career he rose rapidly. Some six years ago, when the Moor Cabinet was formed, he joined it as Colonial Secretary and Minister of Education. In the former capacity he instituted marked improvements in the Natal hospitals, especially those of Durban and Pietermaritzburg, and as Minister of Education played the leading part in the introduction of the Compulsory Education Act of Natal, and of that which authorized the establishment of a university college in the colony. On several occasions during prolonged absences of his chief he conducted the government of Natal, and was himself several times absent from the colony as its representative on inter-colonial commissions." |
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