"My Luck's Still In": With more spotlights on General Smuts
Thomas Boydell
Category
Books
Date
1948
Materials
Place of origin
South Africa
Collection
Chartwell, Kent
NT 3062605
Summary
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts PC, OM, CH, DTD, ED, KC, FRS[1] (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. He led a Boer Commando in the Second Boer War for the Transvaal. During the First World War, he led the armies of South Africa against Germany, capturing German South-West Africa and commanding the British Army in East Africa. From 1917 to 1919, he was also one of the members of the British Imperial War Cabinet and he was instrumental in the founding of what became the Royal Air Force (RAF). He became a field marshal in the British Army in 1941 and served in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill. Book gifted by: Thomas Boydell Book Inscription Signature: Thomas Boydell Book Inscription; The Right Hon Winston Churchill P.C. With every fond wish from, Thomas Boydell Date of Inscription: Circa 1948
Bibliographic description
368 p., plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Provenance: Inscribed by the author: "The Right Hon Winston Churchill P.C. With every fond wish from, Thomas Boydell" Binding: publisher's black cloth.
Makers and roles
Thomas Boydell