Transcript of letter to the Leeds Echo, 10 September 1915
This is the story of my grandfather, Reg Froggatt. He was from Chapeltown, near Sheffield (Froggatt being a good Yorkshire name) and in September 1915 he was serving with the Royal Fusiliers (Frontiersmen) in British East Africa (approximates to Kenya in present day). He wrote a letter to the Leeds Echo, an account of the hostilities and life in the army in Africa, although he did not describe one of his most unusual experiences, which was being mauled by a leopard! This is a typed transcript, the original cutting is with my cousin. In the letter, he recounts the conflicting claims of victory by both the British and the Germans at Bukoba and an officer who was the inspiration for Allan Quartermain in 'King Solomon's Mines'. After the war, he came back to England and was a cattle auctioneer at Banbury market. He died in 1968.