Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Sir Charles Harington Harington, 68, veteran of the Boer War and World War I (Flanders and Near East campaigns), Governor of Gibraltar through most of the Spanish Civil War and, as such, Neville Chamberlain's adviser on Spain; in retirement at Cheltenham, England. In 1939 he said: "That Spain under Franco is going to be dictated to by either Hitler or Mussolini, I just don't believe and never have...
...turned over near Florence, Ariz. Pennsylvania-born (but publicized as Western-born, Indian-blooded), he rough-rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke...
...walls and poles of the Transvaal this handbill was pasted one day during the Boer War. It described a young newspaper reporter who had fought like a professional soldier when a British armored train was ambushed by Boers; had been captured and held as prisoner of war, had climbed over the ten-foot iron fence of his prison with no map or compass, but a little money and some cubes of chocolate in his pockets, and had eventually taken refuge at the bottom of a mine. It described and-with the exception of the age and the mustache, which...
Scotsman Ogilvy, born in Britain, then and now a British subject, served the U. S. as a soldier in the Spanish-American War, but never got beyond Jacksonville, Fla. He served Britain as a captain of Brabant's Horse in the Boer War and won the Distinguished Service Order. At 53 he served Britain again in World War I (1914-15) as a lieutenant of Scottish Horse...
Back in Colorado after the Boer War, Lyulph Ogilvy married an American girl of good but undistinguished Scottish blood. Cut off with a shilling by his long-suffering family, Ogilvy tried to make a go of a farm, finally lost it by foreclosure. In 1907 he moved to Denver, went to work as a night watchman in the freight yards of the Union Pacific Railroad. Next year his wife died, leaving Ogilvy at 47 with an infant son and daughter...