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This guy is a direct descendant of one Jacob Cloete, who came out to South Africa in 1652 with Jan Van Riebeek and the very first settlers. I know this because he was my grandfather's cousin. Reading it made me feel like I wasn't the only black sheep in the family! What a life he lived.
The thing is, he doesn't know any of this until the day before he goes to fight in the trenches in the First World War. He doesn't even know his surname is Cloete. He thinks it's Graham.
But then his dad (my grand ...more
The thing is, he doesn't know any of this until the day before he goes to fight in the trenches in the First World War. He doesn't even know his surname is Cloete. He thinks it's Graham.
But then his dad (my grand ...more
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Stuart Cloete was born in France in 1897 to a Scottish mother and South African father. (His ancestors had come from Holland with Jan Van Riebeck to establish a settlement for the Dutch East India Company).
He remembered his early years in Victorian Paris with sweet nostalgia, but the ideal was shattered when he began his schooling in France and England. He never excelled academically and - in his ...more
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He remembered his early years in Victorian Paris with sweet nostalgia, but the ideal was shattered when he began his schooling in France and England. He never excelled academically and - in his ...more
