General Sir James Willcocks, was a British Army officer who spent most of his career in India and Africa and held high command during the First World War.
Sir James Willcocks
HMS Malabar, the troopship aboard which Willcocks returned to India as a subaltern
General Sir James Willcocks, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., and staff, at the entrance to the fort at Kumasi
General Sir James Willcocks and his personal staff in July 1915
The War of the Golden Stool, also known as the Yaa Asantewaa War, the Third Ashanti Expedition, the Ashanti Uprising, or variations thereof, was a campaign in 1900 during the series of conflicts between the United Kingdom and the Ashanti Empire, an autonomous state in West Africa that fractiously co-existed with the British and its vassal coastal tribes.
Typical fight in the forest, Anglo-Ashanti War of 1900 (Battles of the nineteenth century, 1901)
An Akan stool believed to be for a Queen mother, 1940–1965, in the collection of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Ashanti War in 1900 (Battles of the nineteenth century, 1901)
General Sir James Willcocks, KCMG, DSO, and staff, at the entrance to the fort at Kumasi