A Boer, he had come up from the Union with brits.
"Sketches of the East Africa Campaign"
Robert Valentine Dolbey
Still, at the psychological moment a Joshua would appear, and save the situation, as, for instance, in the Standerton district, where Assistant-Field-Cornet brits led a forlorn hope and saved a whole commando from extinction.
"My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War"
Ben Viljoen
Our Government received about this time a communication from General brits, that the members of the Orange Free State Government had reached Blankop, north of Standerton, and would await us at Waterval.
"My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War"
Ben Viljoen