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Trekking On [1933, including WW1 South African and British Armies]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Michigan, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. First published September 1933. This edition Fifth Impression 1936. The Preface by General the Rt. Hon. J C Smuts says "The writer of this book, as a boy of seventeen, served under me during the days when he and I raided British camps and convoys and outposts during the Boer War in South Africa. Of those doings he has written a stirring account in a previous work, and now he carries on the story from the time he went into exile in 1902 rather than submit to British rule. He describes his trials and adventures in Madagascar and he tells of how, at length, at my wife's request, he was induced to return to South Africa to take part in the reconstruction period that followed the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging. He goes on to tell at first hand of the troubled rebuilding of our country and of a rebellion wherein so many of us found ourselves in the same position as those Southerners who stood by the Union during the American Civil War, and how, like theirs, our road was a thorny one. Thereafter he soldiered under me in the wilds of Africa, and his is the fi

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