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WWI soldier honoured with novel and play
Marguerite Poland’s powerful novel, Iron Love, was adapted into a play by Ingrid Wylde, and performed by a cast from St Andrew’s College and the Diocesan School for Girls in Grahamstown. The play was staged in the St Andrew’s College Drill Hall, which features as the dance venue in the novel. The powerful story about coming of age, love, death and memory, is based around the short life of Charles Fraser, grandson of the missionary Taberer, from St Matthew’s Mission. Charles was a boy at St Andrew’s College in 1913 and was killed during World War I. Poland’s novel was published in 1999.