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Occupation of Mashonaland: 130 year anniversary

William Ellerton Fry took part in the occupation of Mashonaland (subsequently Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) by the Pioneer Corps. He joined the Corps as official photographer and cartographer. His photographs covered the column’s march from the Macloutsie River in Bechuanaland (now Botswana) to Salisbury (now Harare) in Zimbabwe.

On 12 September 1890 the British Flag was hoisted in Mashonaland. This date was later celebrated as a Rhodesian public holiday.
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    Image Number: APN262489
    Title: CORNER OF LAAGER, LUNDI RIVER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: C troop's heavy weapons were placed at the corners of the laagers when they were formed. Here are a 9-pounder and a rocket tube. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4678 x 3444
    Media Id: 283_9
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262435
    Title: CROSSING HANYNI RIVER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4512 x 3411
    Media Id: 282_39
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262449
    Title: HELPING WAGON THROUGH NUANETSIE
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4600 x 3355
    Media Id: 283_15
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262456
    Title: RHADICLADI, KHAMA'S BROTHER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Khama was Chief of the Bamangwatos in Bechualand. Rhadicladi commanded the Ngwato contingent which accompanied the Pioneer Column as far as the highveld. Khama co-operated with the Pioneer Corps as he saw that this would undermine the strength of his arch-rival in the region, Lobengula. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3400 x 4637
    Media Id: 283_21
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262461
    Title: FOOTBALL FIELD, FORT TULI, AND B TROOP
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: "That afternoon B troop, being full of beans at the prospect of being first in the new country, challenged the world to a football match. In practice 'the world' was the rest of the Pioneer Corps and A troop of the Police. The field was marked out in the dry sandy bed of the river. It was awfully hard work floundering about in the deep sand ... The result was a draw, slightly in favour of B troop." (Henry Francis (Skipper) Hoste : Rhodesia in 1890). From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 4680 x 2867
    Media Id: 283_26
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262481
    Title: THE NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, PIONEERS
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4599 x 3335
    Media Id: 283_44
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262458
    Title: OFFICERS' QUARTERS, CAMP NEAR MAFEKING
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: "We found Mafeking in a bustle and the place was fast growing into what Rhodes had described it as, 'The Key to the North'." (Adrian Darter) From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: SOUTH AFRICA
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 4671 x 2847
    Media Id: 283_23
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262455
    Title: BUILDING HUTS, FORT SALISBURY
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 4596 x 2871
    Media Id: 283_20
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262471
    Title: THE PIONEER OFFICERS
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Back row: Lt. E. O'C. Farrell; Lt. F. Mandy; Capt. (Dr.) A.S.O. Tabuteau; Lt. (Dr.) J.W. Lichfield; Capt. J.J. Roach, O.C. C troop; Capt. H.H. Hoste, O.C. B troop; Lt. H.J. Borrow; Lt. A.A. Campbell; Lt. R.G. Burnett; Rev. F.H. Surridge, Chaplain. Centre: Lt. W.E. Fry; Capt. A.E. Burnett; Capt. M. Heany, O.C. A troop; Maj. F.W.F. Johnson, O.C. Pioneer Corps; Capt. F.C. Selous. Front: Lt. E.C Tyndlae-Biscoe; Lt. R.G. Nicholson; Lt. R. Beale; Lt. (Dr.) J. Brett From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4621 x 3415
    Media Id: 283_35
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262434
    Title: WAGONS AT LUNDI RIVER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4504 x 3395
    Media Id: 282_38
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262488
    Title: KHAMA, CHIEF OF THE BAMANGWATOS
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Khama was Chief of the Bamangwatos in Bechualand. Europeans were unifromly impressed with Khama's dignity and the way in which he ruled his people firmly and fairly. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3416 x 4464
    Media Id: 283_8
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262475
    Title: CHIEF CHIBI AND HIS FOLLOWERS
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Adrian Darter wrote: "Selous and Chibi have an indaba. Chibi - which means headman - is seated outside his hut surrounded by his indunas. He tells Selous that he is the head of all the Banyai and defines his boundaries; he also admits the supremacy of Lobengula and that he pays tax to him." This headman (wearing the pale blanket) was not, in fact, the real Chibi who was effectively independent of the Ndebele. This would have undermined the legal basis of the B.S.A. Company occupation of Mashonaland, founded as it was on the assertion that Lobengula had complete sovereignty over what became Rhodesia and that he had the right to sign it away to the Company. Nicholson and Beale are in the background. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelli
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4596 x 3432
    Media Id: 283_39
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262477
    Title: THE CAMP, FORT SALISBURY
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The Pioneers laid out a rather motley looking 'capital' for their new colony, but Salisbury was to grow into a fine and beautiful city in the next few decades. Fry's tent is the large white one on the extreme left. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 9439 x 2677
    Media Id: 283_40
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262431
    Title: THE SAVANA BULI ROCK
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: This granite outcrop was known as the Svana Bula rock. William Harvey Brown climbed the "sugar-loaf mountain" and took Fry's aneroid barometer with him. The summit was 200 metres above the valley floor, which was 1000 metres above sea-level. From his eyrie, Brown could see the Column winding across the plain below and spotted groups of Shona on nearby kopjes observing the wagon train. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3384 x 4647
    Media Id: 282_35
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262480
    Title: AN OUTSPAN, NEAR THE LUNDI
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The wagon in the foreground belonged to Edward Burnett, the Chief Transport Officer of the Column. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4590 x 3369
    Media Id: 283_43
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262483
    Title: MATABELE, FORT TULI
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: "We had hardly finished drawing up our laager when eighteen Matabele warriors, resplendent in ostrich plumes and golden crested crane feathers, crossed the river and came swaggering into our camp as if they owned it. They looked awful scoundrels, big hefty chaps, variously armed with stabbing assegais and guns of many patterns." (Henry Francis (Skipper) Hoste : Rhodesia in 1890). From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4710 x 3424
    Media Id: 283_46
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262478
    Title: THE ARTILLERY, C TROOP
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: C troop's weapons were an important part of the Corps' armament, not only for their lethal value but also for the enormous psychological advantage such instruments of mass destruction gave to disciplined troops fighting against pre-colonial African warriors. Note the Maxim gun-shield to protect the crew. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4552 x 3365
    Media Id: 283_41
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262490
    Title: TWO MASHONAS
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: "The Mashonas, from the first, were particularly friendly, and hailed our advent with joy and repeated expressions of hope that, now we had come, they need no longer fear the raids of the Matabele." (Sir John Willoughby) From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3419 x 4668
    Media Id: 284_1
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262421
    Title: TELEGRAPH AND POST OFFICE, PALAPYE
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: After the occupation of Mashonaland, Palapye was the new territory's link with the outside world. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4343 x 2851
    Media Id: 282_26
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262433
    Title: KHAMA AND HIS WIFE
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Khama was Chief of the Bamangwatos in Bechualand. Henry Francis (Skipper) Hoste in his reminiscences "Rhodesia in 1890" found Khama's people, the Ngwato, irreproachably sober and honest: " ... the territory he ruled was a kind of Utopia, where theft and drunkenness were unknown." From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3368 x 4488
    Media Id: 282_37
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262463
    Title: PART OF THE REVIEW AT MACLOUTSIE CAMP
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The review was held at the insistence of the High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Henry Loch, who feared the catastrophic political consequences if a military incompetent Pioneer Column was annihilated by the Ndebele. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 5449 x 3334
    Media Id: 283_28
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262420
    Title: THE KRAAL, ZIMONTOS
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4483 x 3310
    Media Id: 282_25
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262444
    Title: FORT CHARTER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The log foundations of the earthworks can be seen here. The torrential rain of the wet season of 1890-1 turned the forts into quagmires. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 4608 x 2877
    Media Id: 283_10
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262473
    Title: THE ADMINISTRATOR AND CIVIL STAFF OF THE PIONEER COLUMN
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Left to right: Dr. L.S. Jameson, Rhodes's personal representative on the march; C.F. Harrison, Secretary to the Administrator; Captain Frederick Courteney Selous, Chief of Intelligence; and A.R. Colquhoun, Chief Magistrate and Administrator From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4627 x 3397
    Media Id: 283_37
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262430
    Title: RUINS AT THE JUNCTION OF LOTSINA WITH CROCODILE RIVER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The Pioneers must have been elated at finding these ruins as they would have been evidence of the fabled, ancient mines and cities of the far interior. "It was here that I examined my first ancient, dry-stone walled ruin, further examples of which we were to discover at other places along our route. The flat, grey granite blocks, squared off to approximately the size of an ordinary brick though wider and flatter, were laid in level courses without the aid of mortar." (Henry Francis (Skipper) Hoste : Rhodesia in 1890). From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: SOUTH AFRICA
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4894 x 3625
    Media Id: 282_34
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262445
    Title: THE COLONEL, INTERVIEWING MATABELE SPIES
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The Column's scouts continually met small groups of Ndebele; some were undoubtedly 'spies' while others were probably drawn by the novel spectacle of the wagon train on the move. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4582 x 3387
    Media Id: 283_11
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262424
    Title: ENTRANCE TO FORT CHARTER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The weapon at the gate is a Nordenfeldt machine-gun. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4632 x 3381
    Media Id: 282_29
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
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    Image Number: APN262466
    Title: THE ARTILLERY, C TROOP
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The weapons, left to right, are Maxim machine-gun, 9-pounder field guns, Gardner machine-gun and 24-pounder rocket launcher. The officer commanding C troop, Capt. Roach, is at front right by the rocket launcher and Lt. Tyndale-Biscoe stands in front of the right wheel of the Maxim carriage. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 4594 x 2861
    Media Id: 283_30
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262469
    Title: MASHONAS BARTERING
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: "in the daytime, when the column was halted, numerous natives would come to the laager, some with round baskets and others with calabashes of beer (mtuala) and tobacco. A sort of market-place would then be formed where they sold the produce they brought for pieces of limbo (blue or white calico), beads, or even empty cartridge cases, which as snuff boxes possess no mean value in their eyes." (Sir John Willoughby) From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4650 x 3436
    Media Id: 283_33
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN262468
    Title: MATEBELE, FORT TULI
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: The Ndebele envoys bore a message from Lobengula asking: "What had the white man lost, that we were coming into their country?" (Fry) From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4606 x 3384
    Media Id: 283_32
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262472
    Title: THE TELEGRAPH CAMP AT MAFEKING
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Mafeking was the last major staging post for those probing into the interior. Rhodes built a railway and a telegraph-line north from the town in the years after the occupation of Mashonaland and the subjugation of Rhodesia, linking the new colony with the Cape and beyond. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: SOUTH AFRICA
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4637 x 3347
    Media Id: 283_36
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262451
    Title: POLICE TENTS, TULI RIVER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4527 x 3383
    Media Id: 283_17
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262454
    Title: LAAGER, SETOUTSIE'S COUNTRY
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: " ... tentes d'abri and tents of all shapes and sizes, many-coloured rugs hung out to air, and here and there a flag or two, added to the general gaiety of the scene, while the black funnel of the electric light engine, rising above the tops of the wagons, made one almost expect every minute to catch sight of a steam merry-go-round, or the ordinary swings to be seen at a village fair." (Sir John Willoughby) From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4615 x 3399
    Media Id: 283_2
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262482
    Title: ELECTRIC LIGHT, FORT TULI
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: This picture shows only the steam-engine which powered the light. It was a sixteen horsepower Ruston-Proctor engine with a dynamo, imported from England and fixed on to a steel-lined Wedderburn wagon. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4644 x 3407
    Media Id: 283_45
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262423
    Title: KHAMA'S HUTS, PALAPYE
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Khama was Chief of the Bamangwatos in Bechualand. Khama's capital was moved to Palapye because sanitary conditions at the previous site of his seat of government had deteriorated so much. Note the modern pattern ploughs in the foreground. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4632 x 3348
    Media Id: 282_28
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262432
    Title: GROUP OF NATIVES, ZIMBABYE HILL
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: "As soon as we reached the foot of the kopje a crowd of fierce-looking natives turned up armed in various ways - some with bows and arrows and some with assegais. They told us to stop where we were, while they began fitting arrows in their bows in a very threatening manner." (Henry Francis (Skipper Hoste) : Rhodesia in 1890). From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4542 x 3415
    Media Id: 282_36
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262457
    Title: FORT TULI, OCTOBER 1890
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: ZIMBABWE
    Orientation: panoramic
    Pixel Size: 4704 x 2681
    Media Id: 283_22
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No
    X
    Image Number: APN262512
    Title: KHAMA TRYING A PRISONER
    Path: african.pictures / Historic Africa / William Ellerton Fry Collection
    Description: Khama was Chief of the Bamangwatos in Bechualand. From an album "Occupation of Mashonaland - Views by W Ellerton Fry". Cecil John Rhodes commissioned the Pioneers Column, accompanied by the newly formed British South Africa Company Police, to march into Mashonaland and form the core of the civilian population. Lieut. Fry was an Intelligence Officer on the Pioneer Corps and its official photographer.
    Collections: Independent Photographers
    Subcollections: William Ellerton Fry
    Country: BOTSWANA
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 4667 x 3438
    Media Id: 284_3
    Credit: William Ellerton Fry / Independent Photographers / african.pictures
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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2007/004727/07

PRIVACY POLICY

THIS PRIVACY POLICY (“POLICY”) GOVERNS THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY AFRICA MEDIA ONLINE IN CONNECTION WITH AFRICA MEDIA ONLINE’S ARCHIVE WEBSITE (“WEBSITE”) LOCATED AT [https://african.pictures/]. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO THIS POLICY. BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR CONSENT TO PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

AFRICA MEDIA ONLINE MAY AMEND THIS POLICY AT ANY TIME. AMENDED TERMS SHALL BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON THE POSTING OF THE REVISED POLICY AND ANY SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITY IN RELATION TO THE WEBSITE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY SUCH AMENDED TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY TERM IN THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

This Agreement was last revised on 31-03-2020.
Enquiries: Kate Dearlove

  1. PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
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      2. to be published in marketing and communications materials, including but not limited to, school magazines, brochures, newsletters and published photographs on the Website or otherwise,
      3. to provide the Archive Content Subjects with direct marketing communications regarding Africa Media Online’s activities and news.
    2. We collect Personal Information from the following persons:
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      3. juristic persons such as companies duly represented by a representative,
      4. people who send enquiries or requests to our contact email address.
    3. Categories of persons listed in clause 1.4 may include Website Users and Archive Content Subjects and in certain instances persons may categorised as both.
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      3. username and password,
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      5. organisation name,
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      14. postal code,
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  4. RECORDS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
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  6. OBJECTIONS, COMPLAINTS AND QUERIES
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    2. There may be instances where we cannot grant You access to the Personal Information we hold. We may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or if it would result in a breach of confidentiality. Should this be the case, we will give You written reasons for any refusal.

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