Memoir of FM Sir Edmund Ironside: A Secret Service Agent in South-West Africa, 1905 (c).
‘Ironside's Story as told to me and from notes he left behind by Colonel R MacLeod DSO MC’.
Disguised as a Boer trader in 1903, Ironside went over the South African frontier to pursuade some Boers to return to their homeland and submit to the new Government. in 1904 he joined the German Army in SW Africa during the Bonzelwarts War and served in the transport section with his ox-wagon.