Tag Archives: Gladstone Cemetery

UPDATED: 11/11/2019   11 NOVEMBER 1888, De Beers Board passes resolution of Rhodes to build Kenilworth village for the white miners. 11 NOVEMBER 1899, First person, a black woman, killed by Boer shelling during the siege. 11 NOVEMBER 1918, Armistice ...

27 September 1893, GE Chatfield, uncle of the First Sea Lord The Baron Chatfield, dies. 27 September 1901, Maj-General Pretyman leaves Kimberley to take up an appointment in India. DID YOU KNOW George Eugene Chatfield was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, ...

11 September 1896, Train accident on Dronfield farm kills stoker W.H. Wonnacott. 11 September 1905, Thomas Raaff accidentally killed in the De Beers Mine. DID YOU KNOW There have been two train accidents on Dronfield farm. Both were derailments after ...

UPDATED: 13/08/2019 13 August 1924, Marthinus Kruger dies after a rugby injury during practice. DID YOU KNOW The Gladstone cemetery on Kenilworth Road is not Kimberley’s oldest such, but does appear to boast the most historical and interesting graves of ...

12 July 1888, Rescue attempts continue at the De Beers Mine disaster as hundreds of miners escape the underground fire. Pictured are GM of De Beers at the time of the disaster, Gardner Williams, and the Memorial at Gladstone cemetery. ...

UPDATED: 20/06/2019 20 June 1882, St Mary’s Catholic school for boys opens on Currey Street. 20 June 1884, George Stanley, the first white man to be executed in Kimberley, hanged at the Transvaal Road gaol together with Samuel Trott. 20 June ...

16 May 1899, Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, LC Wilkes, dies of typhus. DID YOU KNOW Leopold Complin Wilkes (pictured) was the second Headmaster of Kimberley Boy’s High School, serving in that capacity from 1893 until his untimely death ...

UPDATED: 12/04/2019 12 April 1872, Historian George Beet arrives in Kimberley. 12 April 1875, Black Flag rebellion led by Alfred Aylward starts. 12 April 1878, Sir William Solomon admitted to the Cape Bar. 12 April 1887, Kimberley Boys and Girls ...

UPDATE: 16/02/2018 16 February 1900, The Battle of Dronfield. 16 February 1901, Four Africans killed in a mud rush in De Beers Mine. 16 February 2001, Clyde N Terry Hall of Militaria opens at the MOTH Centre. DID YOU KNOW ...

UPDATED: 01/12/2017 1 DECEMBER 1899, Traffic Manager of Cape Government Railways Thomas More dies. 1 DECEMBER 1906, De Beers Benefit Society operates from new building in Stockdale Street. DID YOU KNOW The death of a personal friend, Henry Scott-Turner, at ...