I Journeyed into German West, Amidst Hideous Danger, by Lt-Col Deneys Reitz | Apr-May 1915 | Ep 105

Supplementing Col. Trew's story in Episode 104 of Botha's advance to the German capital Windhoek, Lt.-Col. Deneys Reitz describes a trek made at the time under circumstances of the gravest danger and hardship. Few more moving episodes have been related in this work than the loss of Colonel Reitz's horse, or risks more grave recounted than those incurred during this ride through a waterless desert.

Lieut.-Colonel Reitz's career as a soldier started when he fought in the Boer War as a boy of seventeen. During the Great War he served in the German-West and German-East African campaigns, and afterwards went to France, where he was severely wounded in 1918. He later took an active part in public life as a Cabinet Minister in the South African Government.