A memoir of early British South Africa Police Days 1912-1919 – Bernard Hugh Seymour-Hall BSAP

Description In 1912 Southern Rhodesia was a very young country, with vast areas of bush, few roads and mostly dependent on the horse, the mile and the ox-wagon for transport. Its Police Force, the British South Africa Police, together with its forebears had only been in existence for twenty-two years. It was in this year that Bernard Seymour-Hill joined the BSAP as a Trooper. He had previously been a seaman for four years. After Depot training he was posted to Gwanda, in Matabeleland. This station served a large area, teeming with wild animals and in the rainy season there were many flooded rivers making travel and patrols difficult. The young Seymour-Hill had keen powers of observation and an interest in people together with an ability to write which allowed him to record many tales of adventure and of the characters he met. He wrote of matters such as witchcraft, the logistics of patrolling, camels, the Bechuanaland Border Guard, mobile columns, the Spanish Flu epidemic which killed thousands, precautions against an invasion by South African rebels during the Great War and of wild animal adventures. In 1919 he transferred to the Native Affairs Department, a very important organisation in the administration of the country and recorded the life and work of the dedicated officials there. This books is his memoir of his time in the BSAP.Ebook is available for purchase here BSAP Association‘Books of the British South Africa Police’ is a series designed with the object of recording previously unpublished stories by members of the BSAP, written many years ago, before they are lost for ever, and republishing stories and memoirs which appeared in old magazines, which are now not readily accessible to the ordinary reader. Buy ebookBuy ebookBuy ebook