Alfred Taylor (soldier)

Alfred Taylor (soldier)

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wikify = September 2008Captain Alfred James “Bulala” Taylor DSO (1862 – 1941) was a soldier and Member of Parliament, Rhodesia.

Alfred Taylor was born in Dublin in 1862. According to his unpublished memoirs that are retained with the Pioneer Association in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he was a ship’s Engineer that sailed to India and on it’s second trip from India stopped in Cape Town where he disembarked and disappeared. It is reported in the aforementioned references that he arrived as a youth to South Africa and took up a post of assembling machinery in Tati, Bechuanaland on the goldmines in 1886. It is also reported that he preceded the Pioneer Column to Rhodesia where he befriended Lobengula the son of Mzilikazi and a minor wife, Uys I. p135. In 1889 he witnessed the Rudd concession signed between Lobengula and the British South Africa Company, Uys I. p136. During the Matabele War of 1893 he acted as a guide to Cecil Rhodes and according to his unpublished memoirs and the “Plumtree Papers” by Mrs. Clarke, he had an argument with Cecil Rhodes whilst escorting him secretly to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and threatened to abandon him. Fortunately the argument was settled and the trip proceeded. In the 1896 Matabele Rebellion he was the Commanding Officer of a portion of Colonel Plumer’s Column, Uys I. p183 & 234.

Captain Taylor served in intelligence during the Second Boer War and assisted in the Relief of Mafeking. He was also Lord Kitchner’s “Aide de Camp” and was involved in the Breaker Morant saga as he served in the Bushveldt Carbineers.

For services rendered Queen Victoria awarded him with Avoca Ranch in Bulalima Mangwe (Plumtree, Zimbabwe).

During the “First World War-1914-1918” he served in France and was awarded the DSO. It is reported in the “Plumtree Papers” that he modestly said that he was awarded the King and Queen’s medals. Besides being the first Native Commissioner in Rhodesia he was also a Member of Parliament. He died in 1941 and is buried in the Bulawayo, Zimbabwe cemetery.

References

“Breaker Morant” Union Films, Australia 1961.

“Unpublished memoirs of Alfred James Taylor” donated to the Pioneers Association, Bulawayo by his son Albert Taylor

Clarke Mary, (1986) “The Plumtree Papers” Belmont Press, Bulawayo in association with Plumtree High School

Rosenthal, Eric, (1961) “Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa” Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London.

Uys Ian, (1992) “South African Military WHO’S WHO 1452-1992” Galvin & Sales, Cape Town


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