Frederick Hendriks

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Frederick Hendriks, son of Herman Hendriks and Abigail Rosetta Levien to:
Hortense Campbell Littler

1) Ida Stewart Hendriks, birth 30 Jun 1859, died 7 Feb 1929
Married 1879 to:
Albert Edward Williamson Goldsmid, birth 8 Oct 1846 Poona, Bombay, India, died 26 Mar 1904 Paris, France, son of Henry Edward (Tsebi Hirsch) Goldsmid and Jessie Sarah Goldsmid
A friend of Theodore Herzl

Colonel in the British army; born at Puna, Bombay, Oct. 6, 1846; son of Henry Edward Goldsmid. In June, 1866, he was gazetted from Sandhurst, England, to his first commission in the 104th Foot of the Bengal Fusiliers. He became adjutant of battali on in 1871, captain in May, 1878, major in 1883, lieutenant-colonel in 1888, and colonel on April 21, 1894. In 1892 Colonel Goldsmid was selected by Baron de Hirsch to supervise the colonies in Argentina, but retired from the task to take up hi s appointment as colonel-in-command of the Welsh regimental district at Cardiff in 1894. In 1897 he was promoted chief of staff, with the grade of assistant adjutant-general in the Thames district. At the departure of the Aldershot staff with Si r Redvers Buller in the conflict with the Boers in 1899, he acted as chief staff-officer at the camp at Aldershot, and was entrusted with the duties of mobilization. In Dec., 1899, when the sixth division of the South-African field force was mobil ized, Goldsmid was selected as chief staff-officer to General Kelly-Kenny with the grade of assistant adjutant-general, and in that capacity was present at the battle of Paardeberg. Duringthe earlier stages of the war he was commandant of the Oran ge River, Herbert, and Hay districts, 1900.

Colonel Goldsmid is an ardent Zionist, and is chief of the Chovevei Zion of Great Britain and Ireland. The success of the Jewish Lads' Brigade in London and the provinces is mainly due to Goldsmid's initiative. In 1903 he became president of th e Maccabeans, of which he had been one of the founders.

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