J. Dwyer

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Private J. Dwyer 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 J. Dwyer acted in one production during his three-year stay on the Eastern Frontier.

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


Contribution to SA theatre

Christmas 1860: Acted in "a grand Balletical (sic) Introduction" entitled The Rivals. (Ucumcucumlala, an ugly old Kaffir (sic) Chief).

(North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 4, Christmas Supplement, 1860. Page 51.)


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