Theodore Stuart Allison

From page 310 of Dark Bright Land by V M FitzRoy

“Theodore Allison, four years younger than his brother James, a big broad-shouldered youth with steady eyes and his mother’s good looks, was clerk and interpreter in Newcastle during the Zulu war, but after Cetewayo had set his mark to the treaty of peace Theodore took out a Government permit for catching wild ostriches. “

(Shelagh Spencer) Theodore Stuart ALLISON: THEODORE FARMED IN HARRISMITH FROM 1885 TO 1899. HE WAS GUIDE AND HONORARY SERGEANT WITH THE NATAL GUIDES DURING THE BOER WAR AND TOOK PART IN THE DEFENCE OF LADYSMITH, LAINGS NEK, TRANSVAAL AND ORANGE FREE STATE WITH THE INTELLIGENCE DEPT. IN 1901 HE BECAME A MAGISTRATE IN STANDERTON.