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A fact from Andrew Wauchope appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein?

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Burial locations – Magersfontein and Matjiesfontein

At 11:52, 18 May 2019, 58.173.116.28 indicated, but did not provide a valid citation/reference, when 'reading my late father's notes written in 1949. He was Sidney Irwin an electrical engineer living then in Kimberley. Interested in Boer War history he interviewed at transport driver who told him the story.

Wauchope was buried at first near the Magersfontein battlefield but due to a mix-up with a cable from his wife, his body was exhumed and sent to Matjiesfontein, which was a small station some 450 miles away.

His body certainly was exhumed,^[1] but no indication as to why the movement. There was also a battle occurring at Matjiesfontein in the same week, so both areas were battlefields.^[2] A 1916 newspaper article does say the body was also moved erroneously, but not why it was an error.^[3]

On the other hand, James Douglas Logan, the 'Laird of Matjiesfontein' was now a well-established Scotsman in South Africa,^[4] involved in establishing cricket in the country, and may have been connected through acquaintances known to the general's wife. She wanted the grave in a place that she could have it moved back to the family vault in Scotland.^[1] Q8682 (talk) 16:14, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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^ ^a ^b "The late Gen. WAUCHOPE". Daily Telegraph (Tasmania). Vol. XX, no. 23. Tasmania, Australia. 26 January 1900. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Page 5". West Australian Sunday Times. Vol. III, no. 105. Western Australia. 17 December 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "CAPE COLONY". The Bendigo Independent. No. 14, 189. Victoria, Australia. 17 July 1916. p. 3. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^ DHOLE, Pradip (6 February 2018). "James Douglas Logan: The "Laird of Matjiesfontein"". Cricket Country. Retrieved 18 May 2019.

[TasTel-1] "The late Gen. WAUCHOPE". Daily Telegraph (Tasmania). Vol. XX, no. 23. Tasmania, Australia. 26 January 1900. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

[2] "Page 5". West Australian Sunday Times. Vol. III, no. 105. Western Australia. 17 December 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

[3] "CAPE COLONY". The Bendigo Independent. No. 14, 189. Victoria, Australia. 17 July 1916. p. 3. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] DHOLE, Pradip (6 February 2018). "James Douglas Logan: The "Laird of Matjiesfontein"". Cricket Country. Retrieved 18 May 2019.

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