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Kelly-Kenny, Lieutenant-General Thomas,
1840–1914
Thomas Kelly-Kenny commanded the British 6th Division under Lord Roberts and, when Roberts
was ill, was the senior officer present when the Boers were surrounded at Paardeberg. Roberts’s
second-in-command, Lord Kitchener, technically Kelly-Kenny’s junior, over-ruled the siege approach
proposed by the more experienced general and considerable losses were sustained before Roberts
recovered and resumed command.
Kelly-Kenny joined the 2nd Foot, later the Queen’s Royal Regiment, in 1858 and served in China
in 1860. He commanded a division of the Transport Train in the Abyssinian campaign of 1867–68.
He was appointed Inspector-general of Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting in 1897. In addition to
Paardeberg, where Roberts adopted the tactics he had advocated, Kelly-Kenny was at the Battle of
Driefontein. When the advance from Bloemfontein began, Kelly-Kenny was left behind as General
Officer Commanding Orange River Colony, as it had then become.
See also:
Driefontein, Battle of; Paardeberg, Battle of.
Reference:
Hall, Darrell, ed. Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer
War (Pietermaritizburg, University of Natal Press, 1999).
Khaki
The colour of British active foreign service uniforms, as ordered in 1896. Khaki was also the word
used by the Boers to refer to British soldiers. Khaki uniforms were first worn by the British in battle
in northern India at Sangao (now in Pakistan) on 11 December 1849, having been introduced into the
Indian Corps of Guides the previous year by Lieutenants H. Lumsden and W. S. R. Hodson. Khaki
uniforms were first worn generally in the Sudan Campaign of 1898.
Reference:
Barthorp, Michael, The British Army on Campaign 4, 1882–1902 (London, Osprey, 1988).
Khoikhoi, The
Known to Europeans as Hottentots, the Khoikhoi were indigenous to south-west Africa, the area that
became known as the Cape. White colonisation and settlement led to their destruction and
disappearance.
The assertion, often made, that South Africa was an empty land when the white man arrived is
evident nonsense. The purpose of the establishment of a staging point for ships of the Dutch East India
Company at the Cape of Good Hope was to acquire supplies of vegetables and cattle, the latter to be
purchased from local black Africans already residing there. The Khoikhoi were hunters and herdsmen
of fat-tailed sheep and longhorn cattle. By and large they lived in peace with neighbouring San and
Nguni peoples.
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