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To prevent that the occasional visitor to this venerable website leaves with the wrong idea about the quality of female fashion during the Boer War, please find hereunder “Cuzzie” enjoying a leisurely stroll on Hout Bay beach. From accompanying photographs Iit appears that Cuzzie was the squeeze of one Captain Strong.

Any hints as to the identity of Captain Strong? A brief sort through brings up two captains named Strong on medal lists; Edgar Hugh Strong, Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, and C. W. Strong, 1st Kitchener's Fighting Scouts.

P-C. I don’t want to pull this thread off-topic. I only have a photograph of Captain Strong in something that could be civilian, no initials mentioned. Perhaps you can ID him on the basis of that. There are a few other photographs that came from the same album but they were scenes around Harrismith, Klerksdorp and Krugersdorp, possibly taken from a moving train.

Captain Strong