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Memories from Good Hope to Guardafui (1940-2000)
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This is an autobiographical account of my life from 1940, when I left England for Southern Rhodesia, until I returned to England in 1999. I have called it "Good Hope to Guardafui". I was in the Southern Rhodesian and South African forces in the 1939/45 war and was wounded in action in Italy in 1944. I went to a South African university before joining the British Colonial Service in the Somaliland Protectorate as a district officer in 1949. After ten years, with considerable experience also in Ethiopia, and independence in Somaliland, I transferred to Northern Rhodesia. After my marriage and a further three years service and the independence of Zambia, I returned to England. After several years of frustration in the United Kingdom, I returned to Southern Rhodesia and joined the Community Development Training Branch of the Ministry of Education. That lasted from 1970 until 1982, and covered the early years of Zimbabwe independence. I retired from Government service in 1982 and settled happily in a very pleasant part of the Eastern Highlands of Rhodesia, where my wife died in 1996. This is mostly a light-hearted account, with some more serious episodes, particularly those concerning Ethiopia. It concentrates on the amusing, fascinating and interesting incidents. This applies particularly to service in the Somaliland Protectorate, about which I have seen little written in a humorous vein.
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