The British government recruits a young officer to work in Northern Rhodesia… but nobody seems to know where it is!

>One fine spring morning, he [**Sir Stewart Gore-Browne**] was teeing up on Byfleet golf links when he bumped into the officer from the Royal Engineers who had run the Ordnance Survey course he had taken in Southampton, and asked if he would like to go to Northern Rhodesia to work on the Border Commission. >’Yes, indeed,’ he had replied, ‘but where is it?’ >Recounting the story, many years on, Gore-Browne told the *New Yorker*, ‘The chap at the War Office who had offered me the post didn’t know where it was either.’ ________________________ **Source:** Lamb, Christina. “Part One: 1914-1927, Chapter 1.” *The Africa House: The True Story of An English Gentleman and His African Dream*. Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. 8. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Lieutenant Colonel Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, DSO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Gore-Browne)