The funeral procession and interment of Leander Starr Jameson (Jameson Raid)

The funeral procession and interment of Leander Starr Jameson (Jameson Raid)

A rare grouping of five antique (May 1920) photographs depicting the funeral procession and interment of Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1914-1917) at World's View, in the Matopos Hills, Rhodesia.

Jameson (Dr. Jim), Second Administrator of Mashonaland until 1895, and President of The British South Africa Company from 1913 to 1917, died on the afternoon of Monday, 26 November 1917, at his home in Hyde Park, London.  His body was laid in a vault at Kensal Green Cemetery on 29 November 1917, where it remained until the end of the First World War.  Ian Colvin (1923) writes that Jameson's body was then carried to Rhodesia and on 22 May 1920, laid in a grave cut in the granite on the top of the mountain which Rhodes had called The View of the World, close beside the grave of his friend.

From the Western Mail, 27 May 1920, The final interment of the remains of the late Sir Leander Starr Jameson alongside those of the later Mr. Cecil Rhodes at Worlds View [Matopo] Hills, Rhodesia, provided a most striking and impressive ceremony.  The coffin lay all night in the open in the glow of the campfire, guarded by a single sentry.  The funeral procession up to the mountain preceded by clergy and choir was a picturesque sight.  One hundred and fifty native chiefs and head men were present.  Dr. William Thomas Gaul, a former Bishop of Mashonaland, officiated.  The large gathering included the ADMINISTRATORS OF North and South Rhodesia, and the Duke of Abercorn, President of the Chartered Company.  In a message regretting his absence owing to the meeting of Parliament, the Prime Minister (General Smuts) paid a striking tribute to the deceaseds great service to South Africa and his work as one of the founders of the Union.

Also included in the lot, and larger photograph of funeral cortage (with the Union Jack drapped over a coffin, on a gun carriage), at St. Marys Hall (early Johannesburg), annotated on the verso "The Coffin was born on a horse-drawn gun carriage", suspected but unconfirmed to to be that of Jameson.

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