Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), South African and British Commonwealth statesman, 1926. Artist: Unknown

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Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), South African and British Commonwealth statesman, 1926. Smuts led commandos in the Second Boer War for the Transvaal. Later, he led the armies of South Africa against Germany, capturing Namibia and commanding the British Army in East Africa. He became a Field Marshal in the British Army in 1940, and served in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).

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