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In the northern province, ex-servicemen used their money to buy cattle in order to marry into more established families.
Apart from ex-servicemen, who of course were mainly much older, married students were almost unknown in 1919 and the early 1920s.
Colonial officials were incorrect, however, in believing that the vast majority of ex-servicemen had abandoned notions of elite status and superiority.
This system ignored, though, the needs of war neurotic ex-servicemen, nor did it adapt to their special requirements as they became known.
Many ex-askaris sought to band together in ex-servicemen's societies.
These observations indicate the range of problems that probably faced exservicemen, but war neurotic ex-servicemen met with further obstacles.
Yet this was not the only ideological source used in the assessment of war neurotic ex-servicemen.
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