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John Henry Patterson

John Henry Patterson (1867-1947) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and autobiography writer.

He is best known for the book, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo which was made into a film of the same name in the 1950s and re-made as The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996. He also wrote With the Zionists at Gallipoli in 1916 and With the Judeans in Palestine in 1922.

Patterson was born in Ireland and served as a soldier in British India, the Boer War and First World War becoming a major figure in Zionism as a commander in the Jewish Legion of the British Army.

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Note: A different J. H. Patterson was involved in the NCR Corporation.

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