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FC. Selous Homestead
Located in
Zimbabwe :: Matabeleland South
Category:
Attraction :: Grave
F.C.Selous, hunter, guide, pioneer, explorer, rancher. During the period 1894 - 96, FC Selous was the manager of Essexvale Estates. He built a house where he and his wife lived. They left the Estate in 1896 for refuge in Bulawayo during the Rebellion and the house was burned down. Years later, in 1914, at 60 years old, he volunteered for service and was appointed a Captain in the Royal Fusiliers serving as an Intelligence Officer in East Africa. He received the DSO in 1916 for “conspicuous gallantry, resource, and endurance,” but was sadly killed in action by a German sniper at Behobeho, now in the Selous Game Reserve in south-eastern Tanzania, on 4th January 1917, aged 65 years. He was buried on that spot.
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