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"Empire Jack”

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"Empire Jack” - A talk by Peter Walker. John Norton-Griffiths lived at Mole Cottage in Westhumble. Before the war, he had mined for gold in southern Africa, served in the Boer War, and developed railways in Angola and Chile. In 1914 he raised the 2nd King Edward’s Horse at his own expense and was commissioned as a major. Using his engineering ex...