He has seen both WW1 and WW2 and survived against the odds.
This story is told by his Granddaughter - Jane
Kangi belonged to my grandfather, Guy, born in January 1874. Guy was invited by Fred Byrne (a famous English cricketer, International Rugby player and Captain of England RF) to join a British Lions tour.
He was to play in the Anglo-Australian Rugby Football Team which toured Australia for several months in 1899. Invited by the NSW Rugby Union, they played 21 matches of which 3 were Test Matches with spectators on one occasion numbering over 30,000!!
On his return to the UK, Guy played in the scrum for the Midlands Counties XV and 4 times for the Barbarians v Burundi in S Wales - He also brought back Kangi!
Guy passed his sporting genes (and Kangi) on to my father Denis who captained Worcestershire at Cricket and was the youngest member of the Cambridge Cricket Club Tour to Canada and USA in 1933.
My father was a Bomber Pilot in WW2 who came back when many didn’t and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Medal, remarkably Kangi survived too.
