The Great War : Letters and Diaries of a South African Family 1913-1920.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanford, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molteno family--Correspondence.

Molteno family.

Murray family--Correspondence.

Murray family.

Anderson family--Correspondence.

Anderson family.

Stanford family--Correspondence.

Stanford family.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Great War

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Mvusi Books, 2020.

Summary:

From 1913 to 1920, the Molteno-Murray family published a private journal called "Chronicle of the Family". It appeared three times a year, providing news of the family scattered throughout South Africa, Britain, and Kenya - a means, as one of the editors put it, "of preventing the younger members growing up strangers to each other." When war was declared in 1914, the Chronicle began to include letters from family serving in the military and medical corps in diverse contexts, including the war fronts in German East Africa and South West Africa, the trenches of France, and naval battles. News from home continued with accounts of life on a Karoo farm, a horse trek in Basotuland, a leftist political rally in London, and reminiscences of older family members.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

INTRODUCTION

1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

KAMFER'S KRAAL

JANET - A SKETCH

1912-1913

The Balkan War - Letters from Ernest Anderson

1914

A Visit to Basutoland - Effie Anderson

1914 THE BOER REBELLION

Diary - Kenah Murray

The Graaff-Reinet Commando - John Molteno

1914-1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Letter from Effie Stanford (nee Anderson) / East Griqualand

A West Coast Voyage - Willie Blenkins

In Memoriam

1914-1918 THE WAR IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA

Letters from Jarvis and Lenox Murray

1915 THE WAR IN GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA

1915 THE WAR IN EUROPE

Letters from Ernest Anderson / France

Letter from Willie Anderson / France

Letter from Caroline Murray / London

Loss of H.M.S. Goliath - Lieut C W Parker

Letters from Gerald Sandeman / France

Letters from George Murray / France

1916 THE WAR IN EUROPE

Letters from Kenah Murray / France

The Battle of Jutland - Percy Molteno

Geneva and the War - Marguerite Genequand

1917 THE WAR IN EUROPE

Letters from Betty Molteno / London

The Albert Hall Meeting - Betty Molteno

Letter from Ronald Beard / France

1918 THE WAR IN EUROPE

Letter from Betty Molteno / London

Letters from May Murray-Parker / London

Letter from George Murray / France

George Murray death announcement

Letters from Kenah Murray

American Canteen Work in France - Letters from Nan Mitchell

The Labour Conference - Betty Molteno / London

The Naval Surrender - Letters from Gordon Thomas

Letter from Alice Greene / London

The Baltic Expedition - Letters from Gordon Thomas

1916-1920 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Drought in the Karoo 1915-1918

Episodes of Farm Life - Kathleen Murray

Gamin - A Police Dog - Bessie Molteno

Travel Diary - Kathleen and Margaret Molteno

Memorial Service for General Louis Botha - Percy Molteno

Editorial closing the Chronicle - Kathleen Murray

THREE 19TH CENTURY REMINISCENCES

Reminiscences as a magistrate in Mount Frere 1879-1880 - Willie Blenkins

Reminiscences of the Molteno Family in the 1860s - Caroline Murray

The Prah Expedition in the Ashante War 1871-1874 - Dr C.F.K. (Charles) Murray

REFERENCES

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780986979170

0986979171

OCLC:

1227240420