Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Lieutenant-General Sir Jacob van Deventer KCB CMG DTD (18 July 1874 – 17 August 1922) was a South African military commander.Van Deventer was born in Ficksburg in the Orange Free State. He began his military career in the Transvaal republican forces in Pretoria on the 21st February 1896, and fought in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).He returned to military service in World War I, and commanded a Union Defence Forces formation in the German South West Africa Campaign (1914-1915).. }
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- Jacob_van_Deventer_(general) comment "Lieutenant-General Sir Jacob van Deventer KCB CMG DTD (18 July 1874 – 17 August 1922) was a South African military commander.Van Deventer was born in Ficksburg in the Orange Free State. He began his military career in the Transvaal republican forces in Pretoria on the 21st February 1896, and fought in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).He returned to military service in World War I, and commanded a Union Defence Forces formation in the German South West Africa Campaign (1914-1915).".