Who’s Who 1916
The Who’s Who of 1916 was published right in the middle of World War One. Sadly the Battle of Delville Wood took away the lives of 766 men, which was the biggest loss of South African soldiers at one time during this war. Search the over 2400 biographies of South African residents in this publication of well known personalities.
P.W. Botha a former Prime Minister of South Africa was born on the farm Telegraaf in Paul Roux district, Orange Free State on the 12th January and on the 5th June Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener drowns when the HMS Hampshire sinks after being hit by a German mine near the Orkney Islands. These are two of the few major events that happened during this year.
By 1915 Ken Donaldson who started Who’s Who had been requested to add a business section to the “South African Who’s Who” but also found that it was also an almost impossible task owing to the amount of additional labour required. After the issue of the last edition in July, 1913, he decided to put forward the date of publication from July to January, and thus gain the extra six months necessary to make the innovation and produce the volume in January that year.
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