| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Are our State schools allowed to teach history? | |
| Posted by: | Cllr Sam Hearn | |
| Date/Time: | 25/06/20 19:59:00 |
| The Selous Scouts was a highly succesful multi-ethnic elite special services unit in the Rhodesian armed forces was name after Frederick Selous, the nephew of the painter Henry Selous. Frederick Selous is the kind of character you would expect to read about in a John Buchan or Rider-Haggard novel. He was a a young man one of the last professional big-game hunters in central southern africa but became an early proponent of conservation. He was a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt who did so much to conserve the wild areas in the USA (as well as shooting bears - hence Teddy bear). He joined the British Army in East Africa in 1914 at the age of 64. He was killed by a German sniper in 1917 and was buried under a tamarind tree near where he fell, at Chokawali on the Rufigi River, in today's Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. |