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Kaffir
A name used by the Boers, taken from the early Arab traders’ word for an unbeliever, to designate a
black African person. It was adopted by other white people, including the British. It is now perceived
as being extremely derogatory, but it was not taken in that sense at the time of the Boer War and
contemporary documents should be read in this light.
Karri Davies, Major Walter,
1867–1926
Walter Karri Davies was an Australian, educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, resident in
Johannesburg at the time of the Jameson Raid, Cecil Rhodes’s attempt to overthrow the Boer
government in December 1895. He traded in timber imported from Western Australia and took the
name of his import as part of his own name. Karri Davies became a member of the Reform Committee
which was set up to take over the administration and, together with Aubrey Wools-Sampson, was
arrested when the raid failed and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. They were released by
President Paul Kruger under an amnesty to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee on 22 June
1897. On the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899 he, with Wools-Sampson, who was South Africanborn, raised the Imperial Light Horse of 500 picked men in Pietermaritzburg. The regiment’s strength,
drawn from uitlanders,was to rise to 1,500 men during the course of the war. He fought at
Elandslaagte in 1899 and at Wagon Hill in 1900. He was among the first to enter Mafeking when the
siege was raised and continued to serve, without pay or preferment, until the end of the war.
He became an adviser to Lord Milner after the war before returning to Australia. In 1915 he
offered to serve once more and, with the rank of Honorary Colonel in the British Army, headed a
liaison office in California, United States. He died in London on 28 November 1926.
See also:
Elandslaagte, Battle of; Ladysmith, Siege of; Mafeking, Siege of.
Reference:
Wallace, R. L., The Australians at the Boer War (Canberra, The Australian War Memorial and the
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1976).
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