| Personal Details |
| Name: | Mr Edward R Alexander |
| Type: | Staff |
| Born in camp? |
No |
| Died in camp? |
No |
| Gender: | male |
| Race: | white |
| Marital status: | married |
| Occupation: | clerk of court, Wepener |
| Notes: | refugee? |
| Unique ID: | 174 |
| Camp History |
| Name: | Winburg RC |
| Date departure: | 14/04/1902 |
| Date departure: | 25/4/1902 |
| Reason departure: | dismissed for incompetence |
| Destination: | Vredefort Road RC |
| Date appointed (as staff): | 26/10/1901 |
| Notes: | 12/4/1902: CSRC to Alexander: Dismissing him because of unfavourable reports about his camp.
14/4/1901: Memorial from refugees requesting that he be not removed. 'We have, in the past, had our experience of an indifferent chief; and now that we have at last obtained a really good officer, and one moreover under whose care this Camp has vastly improved, we are very much concerned to hear that there is a chance of our losing him.
14/4/1920: Telegram: Hamilton to Comfort: As act of clemency suggest you might reconsider and offer Alexander assistant supt under strong man.
Nd: Alexander to CSRC: Any unfavourable reports on my camp could only emanate from, those who have some ulterior motive, from a condition of chaos, I have improved my camp into something like order - but in the hands of enemies these facts would undoubtedly be kept from your knowledge.
Also the lying slander engineered and trumped up by Currie and utterly disproved by reliable witnesses (ie if the full evidence was placed before you) should point out that I have been receiving, both mean and cowardly treatment.
I am certain that if an impartial inspection of my camp and allowance made for the scarcity of labour and other difficulties would result in a reconsideration of my case - in the interest of ordinary justice. States that it is quite common property that Cyril Hamilton has a very unfriendly feeling towards him. Refers instead to Cole Bown for general estimation he was held in at Norvals Pont.
Sent to Vredefort Road to take a group of refugees to Uitenhage |
| Name: | Uitenhage RC |
| Date departure: | 14/5/1902 |
| Reason departure: | resigned |
| Notes: | 14/5/1902: Alexander to CSRC: tendering resignation. Had I been treated with the courtesy generally accorded to the ordinary criminal being allowed to say a word in my defence I would not have been unjustly deprived of my position in Winburg. My reason for resigning is that I do not care to remain in a service holding out no other prospect but injustice and discourtesy. |
| Sources |
| Title: | SRC 02 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 02 |
| Dates: | Feb 1901-7 Mar 1901 |
| Notes: | RC381, 28/2/1901, Monthly report on Norval's Pont RC |
| Title: | SRC 15 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 15 |
| Dates: | Oct-Nov 1901 |
| Notes: | RC5765, 26/10/1901, Superintendent, Winburg to CSRC and related correspondence |
| Title: | SRC 14 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 14 |
| Dates: | Sept-Oct 1901 |
| Notes: | RC5355, 5/10/1901, Telegram, Superintendent, Norvals Pont to CSRC |
| Title: | SRC 15 |
| Type: | Correspondence |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 15 |
| Dates: | Oct-Nov 1901 |
| Notes: | RC5765, 26/10/1901, Superintendent, Winburg to CSRC and related correspondence |
| Title: | SRC 40 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 40 |
| Dates: | Apr-May 1902 |
| Notes: | A1256: 30/4/1902: SRC Winburg to CSRC and related correspondence |
| Title: | SRC 40 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 40 |
| Dates: | Apr-May 1902 |
| Notes: | A1256: 30/4/1902: SRC Winburg to CSRC and related correspondence |
| Title: | SRC 41 |
| Type: | Correspondence: appointments |
| Location: | VAB |
| Reference No.: | 41 |
| Dates: | May-June 1902 |
| Notes: | A1322: 14/5/1902: Alexander to CSRC and related correspondence |
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