Thomas Dinesen
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Thomas Fasti Dinesen was a Danish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Dinesen in the uniform of the Black Watch of Canada
Karen Blixen with her brother Thomas Dinesen on the family farm in Kenya in the 1920s.
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
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Lettow-Vorbeck was the only German commander to successfully invade a part of the British Empire during the First World War. His exploits in the campaign have been described by historian Edwin Palmer
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…by helping to buy horses for a German officer she met on board ship while sailing to Kenya for the first time. Only months later this officer, General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, was named commander of the German forces in East Africa, and waged an effective campaign against Blixen's English neighbors. Blixen commented that the…
Lettow-Vorbeck in 1914
Lettow-Vorbeck's birthplace in Saarlouis
Captain von Lettow-Vorbeck, stationed in German South-West Africa in 1904
Great War poster of Lettow-Vorbeck leading African soldiers. Above: "Colonial Warriors' Donation"; below a facsimile of Lettow-Vorbeck's signature