World War 2 Veteran Laid To Rest

Kgori Gaborone's coffin
Kgori Gaborone's coffin

Kgori Molefhe Gaborone, the last surviving World War II veteran of the then Bechuanaland was buried at his home in Tlokweng at Kgosing ward after he died on June 10, 2017. Gaborone, also known as Trouble, was 99-years-old.

According to speakers, during the WWII the tiny protectorate of Bechuanaland sent 10,027 recruits, at the time 20% of its able-bodied men to assist Mmamosadinyana, the legendary British Queen that had in the last century responded to pleas of magosi a Batswana to protect them from land-hungry ‘Boers’.

They said the chiefs organised the enlistment of those men and sent them off in 1941 and 1942 to join the British in the war zones of the Middle East and Europe. They returned to Bechuanaland as heroes.

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