In which city was born the man who wrote a book about a British Army officer who fought in the Second Boer War?
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Victor Wallace Germains Victor Wallace Germains (born June 1888 in the Fulham district of London) was an English writer. He wrote several books on the military and foreign policy, including on Kitchener and Churchill.
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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, ( ; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.
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Ian Freer (British Army officer) Major-General Ian Lennox Freer {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born (1941--)18 1941 ) is a former British Army officer who commanded 5th Division.
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Robert Tilney Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (2 November 1903 - May 1981) was a British Army officer who served during the Second World War.
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Francis Philip Woodruff Frank Richards a.k.a. Francis Philip Woodruff DCM, MM (1883–1961) was a World War I soldier and author. Born in Monmouthshire, he was orphaned at the age of nine, and was then brought up by his aunt and uncle in the Blaina area of the South Wales Valleys in industrial Monmouthshire. The uncle, his mother's twin brother, and surnamed Richards, adopted Frank who then changed his surname. During the 1890s Frank Richards worked as coal miner and joined Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1901, serving in the British Empire forces in British India under the British Raj and Burma from 1902 to 1909, after which he transferred to the reserves. He is best known as the author of one of the most widely acclaimed memoirs of the Great War to be written by a ranker, "Old Soldiers Never Die".
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David Sutherland (British Army officer) Colonel David George Carr Sutherland {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 October 1920 - 14 March 2006) was a British Army officer, intelligence officer and military author.
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John Blake (soldier) John Young Filmore Blake or also known as John Y.F. Blake and J.Y.F. Blake was an American soldier and military writer. He was born October 6, 1856, in Bolivar, Missouri, United States, and died January 24, 1907, in New York City. He was an avowed advocate of resistance to British imperialism worldwide and fought as a foreign volunteer for the Boer republics during the Second Boer War.
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Antony Trew Antony (Francis) Trew, (5 June 1906 in Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 1996 in Chertsey, United Kingdom) was a South African naval officer and writer.
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David Harcourt-Smith Air Chief Marshal Sir David Harcourt-Smith, (born 14 October 1931) is a former Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Support Command. He is the author of "Wings Over Suez", an account of air operations during the Sinai and Suez wars.
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Anthony Buxton Anthony Buxton DSO DL JP (2 September 1881 - 9 August 1970) was a British soldier and author.
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Walter Landor Dickens Walter Savage Landor Dickens (8 February 1841 – 31 December 1863) was the fourth child and second son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. He became an officer cadet in the East India Company's Presidency armies just before the Indian Mutiny. The mutiny resulted in the British Crown extending direct rule to India, and Dickens continued to serve in what was now becoming the British Indian Army until his death.
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Alfred Cavendish Brigadier General Alfred Edward John Cavendish CMG (19 June 1859 – 2 February 1943) was a British Army general who served in the South African War and First World War as a staff officer.
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Martin Middlebrook Martin Middlebrook, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born Boston, Lincolnshire, 1932) is a British military historian and author.
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Peter King (British Army officer) Peter Frank King MC DSO (b. Caxton, Cambridgeshire, 30 October 1916, d. Lake Wahapo, near Whataroa, New Zealand, 12 December 1962) was a British Commando in World War II, who was commissioned in the field and awarded the Military Cross. He also served in Korea with the New Zealand Army, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1951. King died in a car accident in 1962.
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Dudley Skelton Lieutenant-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (8 August 1878 - 2 March 1962) was a British Army officer, author and physician.
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William McMurdo Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo GCB (30 May 1819 – 2 March 1894) was a British army officer who rose to the rank of general. He saw active service in India, helped to run a military railway in the Crimean War and then managed various groups of volunteers working with the army. He was eventually knighted.
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James Shaw Kennedy General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, KCB (13 October 1788 – 30 May 1865) was a British soldier and military writer.
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Frederick Augustus Griffiths Major Frederick Augustus Griffiths (d. 1869) was an officer of the British Army and military writer.
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Ronald Skirth John Ronald Skirth (11 December 1897 – 1977) was a British soldier who served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. His experiences during the Battle of Messines and the Battle of Passchendaele, both in 1917, led him to resolve not to take human life, and for the rest of his army service he made deliberate errors in targeting calculations to try to ensure the guns of his battery missed their aiming point on the first attempt, giving the enemy a chance to evacuate. Many years later, after retiring from a career as a teacher, he wrote a memoir of his years in the army, describing his disillusionment with the conduct of the war and his conversion to pacifism. In 2010 the memoir was published as "The Reluctant Tommy", edited by Duncan Barrett.
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Charles Coleman (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General Sir Cyril Frederick Charles Coleman {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1903 – 17 June 1974) was a senior British Army officer.
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William Garnett Braithwaite Brigadier General William Garnett Braithwaite, (21 October 1870 – 15 October 1937) was a British Army officer who participated in the Boer War and the First World War.
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David Lloyd Owen Major General David Lanyon Lloyd Owen {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (10 October 1917 – 5 April 2001) was a British soldier and writer. During the Second World War he commanded the Long Range Desert Group.