After the war in 1945 Dad took over administration of a chunk of the wilds of Southern Sudan about 30,000 square miles. He set up a police force to discourage slave raiding and gun running. Here is a brief insight from his diary .
From his diary They crept in at night, speared the men, drove off the cattle and seized the women and children (for sale as slaves over the border). When word reached us of such a raid the mounted police (and I if around) set off and hopefully rounded them up before they crossed back over the border. The bandits usually put up some resistance.
t one stage a bandit leader put a price on Dad’s head. It took courage to sit out at night outside your tent with the long grass all around, and expecting a spear.
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