The Shamba Raiders - Memories of a Game Warden by Bruce Kinloch
Bruce Kinloch was born in India in 1919. Coming from a long line of soldiers and hunter-naturalists, he was educated at Berkhamsted and trained at Sandhurst. In 1939 he was commissioned into the Indian Army and saw active service with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles, first on the North West Frontier and then during the greater part of the Burma campaign, where he was awarded the Military Cross for his part im the battle of the Sittang River in 1942. Later he ran some of the first jungle warfare courses and also commanded a ‘Chindit’ battalion.
Retiring, with the rank of Major, on the break-up of the old Indian Army in 1947, he joined the Colonial Service. His first post was that of District Officer at Kilifi, on the Kenya coast, where he became closely involved with the control of elephants and the pursuit of ivory poachers.
In November 1949 he transferred to the Uganda Game and Fisheries Department as Assistant to the Chief Game Warden whom he succeeded less than a year later. During the next * ten years he re-organised and expanded the Department and was one of the chief architects of Uganda’s National Parks. In 1960 Kinloch accepted another transfer to become Chief Game Warden of Tanganyika; here, he again re-organised and expanded the Department after studying modern wildlife management techniques in the U.S.A. and Canada on a United Nations Fellowship. His greatest achievement was the creation of the College of African Wildlife Management, to train Africans to become the game and national park wardens of the newly independent African countries. He retired in 1964 when his own post was ‘Africanised’.
Collins and Harvill Press 1972
ISBN: 0 00 261751 X
Condition: Fair, worn dustcover and skew spine.
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Bruce Kinloch was born in India in 1919. Coming from a long line of soldiers and hunter-naturalists, he was educated at Berkhamsted and trained at Sandhurst. In 1939 he was commissioned into the Indian Army and saw active service with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles, first on the North West Frontier and then during the greater part of the Burma campaign, where he was awarded the Military Cross for his part im the battle of the Sittang River in 1942. Later he ran some of the first jungle warfare courses and also commanded a ‘Chindit’ battalion.
Retiring, with the rank of Major, on the break-up of the old Indian Army in 1947, he joined the Colonial Service. His first post was that of District Officer at Kilifi, on the Kenya coast, where he became closely involved with the control of elephants and the pursuit of ivory poachers.
In November 1949 he transferred to the Uganda Game and Fisheries Department as Assistant to the Chief Game Warden whom he succeeded less than a year later. During the next * ten years he re-organised and expanded the Department and was one of the chief architects of Uganda’s National Parks. In 1960 Kinloch accepted another transfer to become Chief Game Warden of Tanganyika; here, he again re-organised and expanded the Department after studying modern wildlife management techniques in the U.S.A. and Canada on a United Nations Fellowship. His greatest achievement was the creation of the College of African Wildlife Management, to train Africans to become the game and national park wardens of the newly independent African countries. He retired in 1964 when his own post was ‘Africanised’.
Collins and Harvill Press 1972
ISBN: 0 00 261751 X
Condition: Fair, worn dustcover and skew spine.
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Bruce Kinloch was born in India in 1919. Coming from a long line of soldiers and hunter-naturalists, he was educated at Berkhamsted and trained at Sandhurst. In 1939 he was commissioned into the Indian Army and saw active service with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles, first on the North West Frontier and then during the greater part of the Burma campaign, where he was awarded the Military Cross for his part im the battle of the Sittang River in 1942. Later he ran some of the first jungle warfare courses and also commanded a ‘Chindit’ battalion.
Retiring, with the rank of Major, on the break-up of the old Indian Army in 1947, he joined the Colonial Service. His first post was that of District Officer at Kilifi, on the Kenya coast, where he became closely involved with the control of elephants and the pursuit of ivory poachers.
In November 1949 he transferred to the Uganda Game and Fisheries Department as Assistant to the Chief Game Warden whom he succeeded less than a year later. During the next * ten years he re-organised and expanded the Department and was one of the chief architects of Uganda’s National Parks. In 1960 Kinloch accepted another transfer to become Chief Game Warden of Tanganyika; here, he again re-organised and expanded the Department after studying modern wildlife management techniques in the U.S.A. and Canada on a United Nations Fellowship. His greatest achievement was the creation of the College of African Wildlife Management, to train Africans to become the game and national park wardens of the newly independent African countries. He retired in 1964 when his own post was ‘Africanised’.
Collins and Harvill Press 1972
ISBN: 0 00 261751 X
Condition: Fair, worn dustcover and skew spine.
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