A. K. Chesterton

Arthur Kenneth Chesterton, M.C. was born at the turn of the century on the Luipaards Vlei gold mine at Krugersdorp on the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where his father was mine secretary. He went to King Edwards's School, Johannesburg, and was later sent to England to Berkhamsted. In 1915, unhappy there and interested only in the war, he persuaded his parents to let him return to South Africa and, immediately upon arrival, he slipped away without their knowledge to enlist in …