1. Gordon Guggisberg published a number of works on military topics and Africa.
19 Facts About Gordon Guggisberg
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Gordon Guggisberg was the grandson of Samuel Guggisberg, a cabinetmaker and farmer who had emigrated from Uetendorf in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland in 1832.
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Gordon Guggisberg was the eldest son born to merchant Frederick Guggisberg and his wife Dora Louisa Willson.
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Gordon Guggisberg was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1889 and promoted to lieutenant in 1892.
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Gordon Guggisberg became instructor in fortification at Woolwich in January 1897, where he reformed the methods and syllabus of instruction.
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Gordon Guggisberg was promoted to captain in 1900, the year he published The Shop: The Story of the Royal Military Academy.
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In September 1902 Gordon Guggisberg was employed by the Colonial Office on a special survey of the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti, and in 1905 was appointed director of surveys in that colony.
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Gordon Guggisberg commanded the 94th Field Company, Royal Engineers, from 1915 to 1916, and was Commander, Royal Engineers, of the 8th Divisional Engineers during the Battle of the Somme, and of the 66th Divisional Engineers from November 1916 to May 1917.
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Gordon Guggisberg was mentioned in dispatches five times, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918.
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In 1919, Gordon Guggisberg was appointed Governor of the Gold Coast.
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The aim of Gordon Guggisberg's policy was the development of the country by and for the natives rather than for the benefit of European capitalists.
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Gordon Guggisberg introduced drastic administrative reforms and devoted himself to the problems of maintaining and improving the system of drainage and irrigation upon which the sugar and rice cultivation of the colony depended.
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Gordon Guggisberg promoted immigration and peasant settlement and the development of the production and marketing of rice.
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Gordon Guggisberg died in 1930 at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, at the age of 60.
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Gordon Guggisberg was for some years captain of the Royal Engineers' cricket eleven and played a first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1905.
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Gordon Guggisberg was a fine player of polo, racquets, golf, and football.
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Gordon Guggisberg was created a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1908 and a Knight Commander in the same Order in 1922.
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Gordon Guggisberg was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1917.
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Gordon Guggisberg's family has long recorded ancestry in the farming village of Belp, going back to the early 16th century and before that in the neighboring hamlet of Niederhausern, near the village of Zimmerwald, both in the Canton of Bern, going back even further, to the late 14th century and beyond.