Life Before The Sabie Game Reserve
James Stevenson-Hamilton was born the eldest of nine children in Scotland on 2 October 1876. Being first born he was the legal heir to their family title and home at Fairholm, by Larkhall in Scotland. He was then educated at Rugby and Sandhurst, then opted for a career in the military.
Serving as part of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoon Guards; “He saw active service with the Inniskillings in Natal in 1888”. In 1898, he had joined Cape-to-Cairo expedition under the leadership of Maj A St H Gibbons. After, “they had tried to steam up the Zambesi in flat bottomed launches and fought their way well beyond the Kariba Gorge” (Cartwright 1960) they had to abandon their boats and explored Barotseland on foot. Stevenson-Hamilton then “trekked across Northern Rhodesia to the Kafue.” After the expedition, he returned to the military and fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War, receiving the Queen’s medal and the King’s medal for his service.
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