page_title: William Antrobus Griesbach
section_title: Boer War and legal career
hierarchical_section_title: William Antrobus Griesbach / Boer War and legal career
caption_attribution_description: English: William Antrobus Griesbach, Canadian Major-General, senator, Member of Parliament
context_page_description: Major General William Antrobus Griesbach, CB, CMG, DSO*, VD, KC was a Canadian politician, decorated soldier, mayor of Edmonton, and member of the House of Commons of Canada and Senate of Canada.
context_section_description: Griesbach enlisted with the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1899 to fight in the Second Boer War.  He knew from being weighed in at boxing tournaments that he fell short of the minimum 140-pound (64 kg) weight to enlist, so on his way to being weighed he surreptitiously grabbed a large piece of coal from the enlistment centre's coal box and held it behind his back while he stood on the scales.  During his service, he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal and received four bars.
  Upon his return in 1901, he opened a law office of his own.  An Edmonton Bulletin article in 1927 quoted him as saying of these early years
  My rent was $12 a month. The first month I didn't make anything; the second I made exactly $12, and the third I went up to $17. Most of my callers in those days were people who wanted to sell me books.
caption: Griesbach as a member of the 19th Alberta Dragoons
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