Title

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

Caption

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).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1926

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C35_335

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,2Mb (1,7Mb) / 11,8in x 16,5in / 3547 x 4944 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait people South Africa politics country body British beard uniform dress South African war location century Britain photograph soldiers soldier print bearded concept twenties B&W one person facial hair goatee MONOCHROME Army politician warfare 19th century black & white black and white B W 1920s 20th century British Army nineteenth century statesman history The Print Collector 1899 - 1902 Boer War Boer Wars the body General Jan Smuts direct gaze photograph Unknown Parsons Jan Smuts General Jan Jan Christiaan Jan Christiaan Smuts RG Parsons RG AS Peake Peake AS RG Parsons AS Peake photograph