Churchill’s Escape from the Boers, 1899
Please can you comment on, the “Dutchman, Burgener by name,” mentioned by Churchill in his account of his escape from the Boers in his autobiography, My Early Life? Is he one and the same person as the Charles Burnham mentioned by Sir Martin Gilbert in Churchill: A Life? Perhaps the surname was changed to protect Mr Burnham`s position in South Africa, even though three decades had elapsed by the publication of My Early Life? It seems certain that Churchill knew of Charles Burnham and the role that he had played: the latter had written to him in 1908 (Vol.…
