Fred C CornellCornell is best known for his wartime exploits and publications during the Maritz uprising and World War I. In London, he studied music and languages. He visited South Africa in 1902 and had a strong interest in Namaqualand. During the First World Wa, he was a Lieutenant in the South African Native Labour Corps and was the first to warn South African forces that Germans had crossed into the Cape from German South West Africa. He worked as an editor for "The Cape Register." His works include The Glamour of Prospecting (1920), a collection of reminiscences that has become an important eyewitness account of the German genocide against the Herero and Namaqua between 1904 and 1908. He also penned martial poetry, such as "A Soldier's Song" about the Battle of Delville Wood in World War One. Read More Read Less