G. Daw

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Private G. Daw (sometimes spelt Dawe) was a soldier serving with the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot when the Regiment was posted to the Eastern Frontier of the Cape Colony between 1860 and 1863, shortly after the Xhosa cattle-killing movement and famine (1857-1858). He came to the Cape Colony as a private. At first, the Regiment was posted to Grahamstown but was later transferred to Keiskama Hoek (Keiskammahoek) in 1862.

Private G. Daw acted in six productions during his three-year stay on the Eastern Frontier.

Private G. Daw was a member of the section of the Dramatic Club known as the Amateurs of the Band and played four minor male roles as well as two young girls.

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 14, Keiskama Hoek, December 10, 1862, page 270.)

Contribution to SA theatre

August 20th and 22nd, 1860: Starred in the three-act play produced by the Band of Amateurs, The Iron Chest. (Robber’s Boy).

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 2, Grahamstown, September 15, 1860, page 18.)

February 17, 1862: Acted in the Amateurs of the Band production of The Omnibus. Or A Convenient Distance. (Farrier's Boy).

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 12, February 28, 1862, page 179/180.)

May 28, 1862: Acted in the Amateurs of the Band production of a one-act farce, The Omnibus or A Convenient Distance, (Farrier's Boy).

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, Supplementary Number, Keiskama Hoek, August 12, 1862, page 240.)

August 30, September 11 & 19, 1862: Acted in the adaptation to the stage from Mrs Moodie’s beautiful tale in a three-act drama by members of the Dramatic Club, 2nd Battalion 10th Regiment and presented for the first time, The Royal Quixote. (Eric, Page to Gustavus Adolphus).

November 12, 1862: Acted in the Amateurs of the Band performed John Baldwin Buckstone's two-act domestic “melo-drama”, Luke The Labourer. The play is set in a village in Yorkshire. (Clara, Dame Wakefield’s daughter).

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 14, Keiskama Hoek, December 10, 1862, page 271.)

November 26, 1862: Acted in the Band of Amateurs production of I. Pocock's famous “melo-drama” The Miller and His Men. (Claudine, Kelmar's daughter).

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 14, Keiskama Hoek, December 10, 1862, page 272.)


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