Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned soldier, served for the last year of the Boer War as a trooper in the Rand Mounted Rifles. He stayed there for two more years, learning about colonial administration from Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener...