Talk:Edmund O'Toole

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[edit] Dates of birth and death

It is believed that he might have been born at Grahamstown in South Africa. Some books say that he died and was buried in Salisbury, Rhodesia but there are also some suggestions that he might have been alive in 1900.

"after the Zulu War he joined the Native Levies where the rose to the rank of Captain and took part in the Basuto War. From then on he has just disappeared. "

"A Scantling of Time - The Story of Salisbury, Rhodesia (1890 to 1900) by G.H.Tanser published in 1965 mentions Edmund O'Toole

Page 52/53 St.Patrick's Day 17th March 1891 - Irish members of the Police and Pioneers, Irishmen of the Column including Paddy O'Toole who had won the Victoria Cross at Ulundi.

Page 254 - mentions Toole's Farm Son of Patrick O'Toole a Gamekeeper at Irish Avondale

Page 255 " Darter's statement in "Pioneers of Mashonaland" that he (Edmund/Paddy) died in 1891 is incorrect."

"Black and White Budget article Page 564/565 dated 4th August 1900. In the list of VC's in the fighting line No. 8 is listed as Sergeant E. O'Toole, Frontier Light Horse, Zulu Land July 1879. In the first part of the article it says that Lieutenant Scoot and O'Toole - Lord William Beresford fellow V.C at Ulundi - although included are not officially known as being at present under arms. Both, however, are residents of the "Cape". Page 564" --jmb (talk) 11:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)