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Served: Middelburg. Awarded the DTD (Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst).

Served in WW1 as Major in the Middelburg "A" Commando, Mentioned in Dispatches in Gazette dated 20 August 1918 (page 9789)

"Gazette Issue 30856. Mentioned in Despatches. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has received from the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, Union of South Africa, the following list of Officers and other ranks whose names have been brought to notice by General the Rt Hon Louis Botha for distinguished service in the Field and in connection with the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1915-15"

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