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Sir John Christopher Willoughby, 5th Baronet
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Sir John Christopher Willoughby, 5th Baronet

British army officer
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    …and his troops, led by Lieut. Col. John Willoughby, set forth from Pitsani, in Britain’s Bechuanaland Protectorate, and crossed into the Transvaal, where they met up with a second column that had left from Mafeking (now Mahikeng), and proceeded toward Johannesburg. By this point, however, their plan was no longer…

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    …and his troops, led by Lieut. Col. John Willoughby, set forth from Pitsani, in Britain’s Bechuanaland Protectorate, and crossed into the Transvaal, where they met up with a second column that had left from Mafeking (now Mahikeng), and proceeded toward Johannesburg. By this point, however, their plan was no longer…

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