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Son of Morris and Jane King. Native of Limerick. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918. On St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Zimbabwe. Lieutenant Solly King, born in Ireland, came to Bulawayo in 1902, finished his schooling at St. George's, and was working with the well-known chemists, Lennon's, when war broke out. He not only volunteered, but paid his own passage back to the Old Country. There he joined the Officers' Training Corps and attracted the favourable notice of Colonel Davidson, through whom he received his commission as Lieutenant in the First Northumberland Fusiliers. In the slaughter on the Somme, Lieutenant King was killed on October 12, 1916. His brother, Sergeant Isidore King, also born in Ireland, had come with him at the same time to Rhodesia. Leaving his work with the Bulawayo firm of Charelick Salomon, he enlisted in the Southern Rhodesian Volunteers and then transferred to the British South Africa Police Regiment, with which he went to German East Africa. Seriously wounded up North, he was invalided out of the army, but never fully recovered, and died of the effects in London. His son, Edwin King, became a well-known Cape Town advocate. ***Jewish |
