St Oswald, King and Martyr, Oswestry, Shropshire
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Not for the first time Claire and I have been annoyed by those responsible for moving gravestones to the perimeter of the cemetery. It is bad enough when the stones are left standing upright but when they are piled up, as has happened in Oswestry, words fail us!
Captain Owen Arthur Ormsby Gore was killed while serving in British Caffraria in 1852. On 7 March 1860 British Caffraria became a separate crown colony. It was finally re-incorporated into the Cape Colony on 17 April 1866.
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