The man from Tobruk

During our conversations, Linda showed me a picture of her father, called Davids, in his unifrom as a member of the Cape Corps, a regiment manned by men of mixed race, officereed by white men, which was created in 1915 to fight in German East Africa, Tanzania, in WW1. Davids waas at Tobruk with the South Africans in WW2 but don't look for them in any accounts of that seige, they were lumped in with all the other South Africans. Of course after Apartheid was introduced, he was forbidden from marching in the Remembrance Day parade. Nevertheless, he put on his best suit, pinned on his medals and went to salute the parade. His family asked him why he bothered and he answered - no one is going to stop me honouring the comrades who fought and died with me.

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