![]() ![]() He had had a very remarkable career at Eton. ![]() News of the feat leaked out but Denys made light of it.Ĭranworth - WW1 - Cole's Scouts - Denys Finch-Hatton was another of my new brother officers, and I think the man with about the most impressive personality I have ever known. Crossing a flooded river in his car with his African tracker, the machine overturned he extricated himself from the driving seat and lifted the car above water whilst the tracker scrambled out. His physique stood him in good stead at times. He was one of the very few lion men who had never been mauled. Denys walked right through the pride, paying no attention to their snarls and the threatening switching of tails that signals approaching trouble: "It was the bravest thing I ever saw in the bush," Moore used to end. ![]() Monty Moore, VC, game warden of Tanganyika, used to tell of the day he and Denys encountered a pride of lions, most of which were lionesses with cubs. He was what in those days was called a lion man he understood the King of Beasts to say nothing of his mate, and he did not kill for fun. Like so many of the old timers Denys was physically strong and tall. One's an ex railway guard, the others an Earl's son. An American visitor once asked the late Paul Whetham, manager of the first firm to organise safaris, what type of men he employed as white hunters: were they English gentlemen, white trash or what?. Safari Trail - reminded me of Chaucer's Knight. ![]()
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