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Deneys Reitz
Born
(1882-04-02)2 April 1882[1]
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State, South Africa)
Soldier, attorney, author, cabinet minister, and High Commissioner[1]
Known for
High Commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom from 1943 to 1944
Spouse
Leila Agnes Buissiné Wright (1887-1959)[1]
Children
Francis William Reitz[1] Claude Michael Deneys Reitz
Parent(s)
Francis William Reitz, Blanka Thesen[1]
Deneys Reitz (1882–1944), son of Francis William Reitz, was a Boer warrior who fought in the Second Boer War for the Boer Republics against the British Empire. After a period of exile in French Madagascar he returned to South Africa, where he became a lawyer and founded a major South African law firm. In the First World War he fought for the Union of South Africa against the German Empire, and then was an officer in the British Army, commanding several battalions. In later life he was a politician. Deneys Reitz was educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein.
While in exile in Madagascar, he wrote about his experience of the Second Boer War (1899–1902). When it was eventually edited and published in 1929 as Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, it still had the freshness and detail of an account written soon after the war. The account is unique in that he was present at virtually every major event of the war.
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original birth certificate Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. "Reitz, Deneys". Dictionary of South African Biography. Vol. I. Human Sciences Research...
Hindenburg Line in September 1918 and was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel DeneysReitz in the closing stages of the war. The 2nd Battalion landed at Zeebrugge...
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