Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the many descendants, and their families, of those who were involved with Winston Churchill during the Anglo-Boer War who responded to my request for information. Without their help and guidance as I retraced my grandfather's footsteps around South Africa this book could not have been written. I am grateful to them for sharing with me the stories told to them by their parents or grandparents, for allowing me to reproduce diaries, letters and photographs, and for their friendship and hospitality. They include: Jim and Barbara Bailey, Martha Bam, Lette Bennet, Anthony Berlein, Joan Bromley, Molly Buchanan, John Burnham, Liz Burrow, Angela Caccia-Lloyd, Max Van Cittert, Stewart and Jenny Clegg, F.L. Hugh de Souza, Dr Jonathan de Souza, Johanna de Wet, Errol Dewsnap, Daniel du Plessis, Joy Fourie, Vera Gallony, Ken Gibson, Dr Alexander J.P. Graham, Jay Haggar, John Haldane , Ian Hamilton, Dr F.E. Hofmeyr, Nancy Horsfall, E.N. Howarth, Yvonne Knowles, Karl Kohler, Mike McKenna, Doris Maud, E.P. Mitchell , Jill Osborne, Tessa Power, Molly Pringle, Dr Willem Punt, Alan Raubenheimer, Becky Smit, Alexander M. Stewart, Charles Wagner and Judge Louis Weyers. I am most grateful to my cousin Winston S. Churchill for permission to quote from works of Sir Winston Churchill and to reproduce certain documents and photographs. I am indebted to the directors and staffs of the following libraries, museums and archives, many of whom have allowed me to reproduce material from their collections: Thomas B. Smyth of the Black Watch Museum; Marcell Weiner and Diana Madden of the Brenthurst Library; Dr Piers Brendon, Keeper of the Archives, Churchill Archive Centre, and his staff; Sir John Boyd, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge; Brian Spencer of the Don Africana Library; Lieutenant Colonel J.J. Hume of the Durban Light Infantry Museum; George Goodey of Fort Durnford Museum; the director and staff of the Killie Campbell Africana Library; Gilbert Torlage of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum Service; Marjorie Heron and Brian Kaighin of the Ladysmith Historical Society; Maureen Richards and Elizabeth Sprit of the Ladysmith Siege Museum; Clive Kirkwood xv Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive of the National Archives Repository, Pretoria; the Trustees and Sheila Mackenzie of the National Library of Scotland; Philip Hirst, editor of the Oldham Chronicle-, John G. Entwhistle of Reuters Archive; John Montgomery of the Royal United Services Institution; Piet Westra of the South African Library, Durban; Hester Nel and Mona Niemand of the Staats Model School, Pretoria; Barbara Conradie of the Standard Bank, Johannesburg; the staff of the MOTH Museum, Johannesburg. It is with great gratitude that I acknowledge the assistance of the many people who helped by providing information and material from which I have quoted: Dr Paul Addison, W.H. Atteridge, Eric Bingham, David Blem, Eric Boswell, George Chadwick, the late 'Pitch' and Eileen Christopher , Minnie Churchill, Peregrine S. Churchill, Liz Clark, Elliott Costas, Brian Dodds, Ambassador du Buisson, Steve Forbes, Robin Fryde, John Gaunt, Sir Martin Gilbert, Ken Gillings, Jill Gowans, Dr Ryno Greenwall, Peter Grindal, Clive Hatch, Sheila Henderson, Marjorie Heron, Raymond and Lynette Heron, Dr Fay Liesling, Brian Logan, Keith Lyon, W.H. Mackay, Jimmy McLachlan, Alastair Martin, Peter and Fiona Martin, the late Clive Mennell, Jessel Molin, Professor Fransjohan Pretorius, David Rattray, Taffy Shearing, Peter Stockil, Mary Swan, Audrey Densham Tanner, Ann Tyrrell, Graham Viney, Errol Wilson, Fred and Jo Woods. I am indebted to Jim Miller of SAMCOR and Nic Griffin of AVIS, who kindly provided me with vehicles for my travels around South Africa. I wish to thank Bridget and Harry Oppenheimer for their kindness and hospitality, and for introducing me to South Africa more than thirty years ago. My greatest thanks must go to Mary Slack for her help, advice and encouragement, and for giving us such a wonderful home from home in South Africa, but above all for her unswerving friendship since we first met at school when we were twelve years old. I am most grateful to my agent Araminta Whitley, my publisher Richard Johnson and my editor Robert Lacey for their enthusiastic encouragement, sensitive guidance and friendly support. Finally I must thank my husband Ken Perkins for his help and guidance throughout the research and writing of this book. His military knowledge has been invaluable and his patience endless. Celia Sandys Savernake Forest March 1999 xvi I 200 miles GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA» « BECHUANALAND CAPE C O L O N...