INTRODUCTORY NOTE CONCERNING 

 THE AUTHOR 



My brother Arnold, though born in Australia, was 

 educated in England at Wixenford and Eton. 

 The call of his native land drew him back to 

 Queensland at the age of nineteen, but hardly had 

 he returned, when the South African War broke 

 out, and he promptly joined the Queensland 

 Horse to serve throughout the greater part of that 

 campaign as a trooper. In August 1914, as this 

 narrative tells us, Arnold Wienholt was in Africa 

 crippled by injuries suffered in his lion hunting 

 expedition. Nevertheless he was quickly in 

 harness again, serving till the end of the campaign 

 in British East Africa in the Intelligence Corps, 

 and winning the D.S.O., and M.C. with bar. That 

 my brother was a well-known figure in the East 

 African campaign, and that the enemy stood in 

 considerable respect of him, may be gathered from 

 the following letter, which he received from the 

 German Commander, General Von Lettow, in 

 December 1921 : 



{Translation) 



" Dear Mr. Wienholt, 



" Your very friendly letter of June has 

 been handed over to me by Mr. Knoop of Bremen, 



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