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Vol. Vol. 4. No. 6 Autumn 1987
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5th 5th April the 1987 of Centenary the of Corps Chapel Guides
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read read at the Service. Centenary Chapel Guides See also p. 107
Above: The Gospel according according Gospel The to Above: St. John Chapter
and and hospitable
the the well Chapel Guides in preparation for its next years. one hundred
reflection reflection on all that had elapsed in the past years. one hundred
Christian Christian were the communities, the who most charming Pakistan Army
corded. corded. It a was remarkable collaborative effort the between various
Goldsworthy to to this make Goldsworthy celebration a reality become should be re
and and everyone dispersed. several via the of chapel for moments some
the the remaining one or hundred so guests were entertained by a of band
pugri-ed pugri-ed staff. Mess This followed was by an excellent lunch, and it
The tremendous efforts efforts tremendous The of Nielsen Miss Karen and Captain Roderick
the the and Pubjab Regiment, served reviving cold drinks by immaculately
was with with was reluctance that late in the afternoon, the celebrations ended
the the churchyard. the While senior guests. including several and widows
the the Punjab Regiment. the now temperature By had risen. and the con
on on a tour of the and the old House cemetery, Mess, the Commandant's
gregation to gregation erected shamianas the moved just welcome most outside
and and retired British officers the had made long journey. who were taken
find find
outside, outside,
live live on true with my friends. not Ask where
lines lines in translated which Urdu read: take away, but 'Death may me I
'It 'It a brilliant dawned Spring sunny day. and the chapel looked as im three three plaques were unveiled, including of one her in husband, memory
Wreaths were were then Wreaths laid at the Stone Foundation set into the east wall large large turn out. and reception given to the congregation by the Punjab
the the Reverend
MM Kaye MM
ud-din, ud-din,
General General Goff Hamilton. by Mollie Hamilton, better as the known author
in in the old House. astonished cemetery near the at Commandant's the
Regimental Centre. Centre. Regimental service The by conducted was the Norwegian
ches ches to his creation. have been proud of would He the scrubbed head
stones stones and surround paths the now which
the the following report.
Colonel Colonel Robert Hutchinson. have been putting would the finishing tou
Frontier Frontier of Pakistan. Farrington Sue present was and she has compiled
from the United Kingdom as as well the from as United Kingdom various parts of the North West maculate maculate as it must have a done years hundred earlier its when builder,
On Sunday Sunday On
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Sir Sir John Cotton, OBE KCMG, The The Rt. Hon. Lord Rees, PC, QC Mr. Mr. COUNCIL COUNCIL THEMAIL BOX thus sealing for ever a lonely royal grave. Perhaps some of the saddest cases BACSAdeals with are those where a grave has been irretrievably lost and no memorial remains to mark the * * * * * * last resting place of some-one who worked and died in the East. When An interesting reminder of the hazards faced by membersof the East such an event occurs and is coupled with a royal connection, the un India Companyeven after they had left India's shores came recently folding story becomes both poignant and intriguing. Chowkidarhas from a very unlikely source - an article in 'The Motorist' by Chris already noted the Fitzclarence family in India (see Vol. 1, No. 1 p.3) Hoare. In it he details the strange fate of the three-masted East but we were grateful to receive a reminder of another Fitzclarence Indiaman 'Grosvenor' which went aground in the early hours of 4 Aug whose career in India was shrouded in mystery. The five Fitzclarence ust 1782 while returning to England. The accident happened on the brother were the illegitamite sons of William lV by Mrs. Dorothea Wild Coast of Transkei, Southern Africa and the remaining survivors, Jordan. One entered the Navy, one the Church of En9land and the re receiving no help from the unfriendly natives, decided to walk to maining three brothers entered the army in India. Of the three, the the Cape which they mistakenly thought was nearby. In fact they were one who held the highest rank was Lieutenant General Lord Frederick, about 600 miles away and set out unarmedwith only the meagre rations who became Conunanderin Chief of the BombayArmy and died at Puran that had drifted ashore from the wreck. Food ran out immediately and dhar near Poona in 1854. His memorial was still visible in 1943. the party were harrassed by locals who would sometimes confront sur George, the second brother was created Earl of Munster in 1831, short vivors and simply cut the metal buttons off their coats. Manyof the ly after his father's accession to the throne. He committed suicide group fell ill and were left to die. Others lived on wild fruit, in 1842 in England. But the third brother, Henry was a more shadowy mussels and dead fish. They travelled under constant threat from character. He was omitted altogether from Burke's Peerage and Lodge's wild animals. Peerage notes him first as a Captain RNwho died in 1818 though this waslater corrected to 87th Foot and the date of death to 1817. Months later six castaways reached the Cape on foot. A rescue exped ition was immediately launched, but only another twelve survivors It was Sir Evan Cotton, the distinguished Calcutta historian who first were ever found, though there were persistent rumoursof white women attempted to solve the mystery of Henry's death. He had noted a ref living amongthe natives. A hundred years later a small number of erence by EmmaRoberts to 'a broken column at Allahabad' which marked gold and silver coins were recovered from the site of the wreck which 'the resting place of a Fitzclarence'. With his usual meticulousness led people to think the 'Grosvenor' was a treasure ship. Manyweird Cotton wrote to the Chaplain of Allahabad who reported that not only and wonderful attempts were subsequently made to explore the wreck - was there no 'broken column' but no relevant entry in the burial one bizarre scheme involved tunnelling tc it, in 1921 and the entrance register. A relative could not help either, saying that to the best to the tunnel can still be seen. Other efforts included an unfinished of his knowledge Henry had been drowned at sea though he gave no fur breakwater round the supposed site, rock-blasting, exploration by ther details. Gradually Henry's career was pieced together. After giant crane and even the intervention of a medium. Sir Arthur Conan serving as an officer in the 10th Hussars in the Peninsula War he Doyle was actually asked to enlist the help of Sherlock Holmes, whom was sent to India as a Lieutenant in the 22nd Dragoons in 1814, under manybelieved to be a real person, to solve the riddle of the ship. the sponsorship of the Governor General, the Marquess of Hastings. No more than a few cannons have ever been found and the fate of the Henry became an ADCto Sir ThomasHislop, Commanderin Chief at Mad 'Grosvenor' and the majority of her survivors remains a mystery to ras, though he seems to have been stationed at Bangalore. The first this day. positive news of his death appeared in the Calcutta Gazette of 18 September 1817 and reported that Henry had died at Allahabad 'on the On the other side of the world, at Hankowin China, a young man suc evening of the 2nd instant, whilst on his progress to the Upper Prov cumbedto the all too commoncomplaint of dysentery, caused by bad inces'. The sad news was confirmed by an entry in the Governor Gen water, and was buried in the English Cemetery there on 3 August 1865. eral's own diary on 2nd September: 'I have been pained by the death Robert Dence's death was all the sadder because of the early promise of Lieut. Henry Fitzclarence. He was a mild, amiable young man, ear he had shown. Born in 1838, he was educated in Brixton and was re nest in seeking information and in improving himself by study. He nownedfor his affability, kindness and gentleness. On leaving sunk under the fourth day of a fever ... This day we have passed the school he entered his father's business a.s a tea-broker at 1, Mincing fort of Allahabad'. Lane, Londonand fired by the idea that China held good prospects for tea buyers, agreed to work for the firm of Holliday, Wise & Co. in In 1946 our correspondent Lieutenant General Stanley Menezes visited Hankow. Before setting out he became engaged to a young lady, whom the old Kydganj cemetery there but found no discernible trace of the he had knownfor several years. His career in China was successful Fitzclarence tomb. 'The remains of this forgotten son of a King of and he was highly appreciated by his employers, but nevertheless Ro England are now resting in an unknownspot at Allahabad, unmarked bert longed to return to England when his five year contract was com even by the "broken column" which once commemoratedthe fact'. Some plete and he began 'to count the remaining hours of his banishment'. years ago an Intermediate School was built over the old cemetery, Within three weeks of his expected departure for home, his family 99 100
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continuing continuing
details details
On the the On launch of our at book the annual luncheon
the the has closed UK) its
along along with Jack party an Hast RIN including Commander
Thailand. Thailand. years 'A few ago someone
alerts alerts the city to the
can can establish with however, members, the help of BACSA
embarrassment of of embarrassment setting out gaily for Firpo's on Calcutta's
1927-1947. 1927-1947.
More importantly importantly More the text
British British Empire'. This at least have would saved your
Hotel Hotel was the in first Rangoon hotel east of Suez to employ
a a pity Spence's Hotel, at one time the oldest hotel in.the
'Hon Sec' Sec' 'Hon
Empire (outside (outside Empire
from the Indian Navy for for the forty Navy Indian from for Buccaneers copies stri of di b Bombay
It It day, was a not gorgeous summer a cloud or a ripple of as wave we
the the decdsof their predecessors in the Service. (TCW)
uti on on uti to Education Officers so that the young sailors will read of
ing. ing.
re-commissioned; re-commissioned; a promise fulfilled on 2 July this year Mr. and when
huge huge 'dekchies' to cater for every taste. It was a truly memorable
for for a short cruise and entertained to a magnificent curry lunch from
ing ing demonstration of helicopter exercises, taken out into the channel
a a based group of families UK of went crew to Portland for Bay the out
ings and Lieutenant Commander Arthur King - both BACSA members - members Arthur ings plus - King and Lieutenant both Commander BACSA
bers bers of the were so who crew obviously 700 proud of this latest ac invitation invitation was received to go aboard the Aircraft-Carrier it when was
'What 'What
occasion occasion and all the time were surrounded we by smart and smiling mem
fashion. fashion. around the were shown various We decks, given a breath-tak 1 i very of HERMES -now renamed VIRAAT (Massive) (Massive) - and -now through VIRAAT the renamed In very i of HERMES 1
fame and BACSA? The The link eh is and has fame BACSA? just whi the Indian Navy taken de-
Mrs. Mrs.
quisition quisition to their navy. To top it has received all, an order BACSA
the the recent ficers, ficers,
Bombay Buccaneers, Buccaneers, on its Bombay history with of memoirs of a number its of
dian Navy the former Royal Indian Navy and the book BACSA published, published, dian the Navy former Royal Indian and the Navy BACSA book
went went out in Craft Landing to be piped aboard and greeted in royal
the the hotel a very lively place according to one source. If there are
BACSA AND THE HERMES HERMES THE AND BACSA
Perhaps Perhaps we
Chowringhee only only to Chowringhee be told that she was 'twenty years too
of of the Royal Indian Navy (1612 - 1947) Association last year, an
very very glad to learn about them'. Indeed it is high time that some-one
any any references to articles or books about Spence's Hotel I be would
What is is What the connection of the between Falkland Aircraft-Carrier HERMES
had had British bannaids in its earliest years and they helped to make
British British bannaids. I was able to refute this suggestion, as Spence's
Strand Strand
of of the
Hudson, from from Hudson, whether whether Spence's was indeed the oldest Hotel. Empire
September 1978 when I I when was 1978 last September in Calcutta'
ish ish
finest finest assets.
digger) digger) and
the the poor pay of the resident staff (Rs
with with a taste for food good and service brought out a on book
cutta. cutta.
photographs photographs of South Park Street and
to to a guest Lansdowne, night
101 101
where due due where credit is paid to BACSA
a a district in the north of the Bombay
interest'. interest'. second The cutting the from
from from the tragic and a news descendant
had had returned
transfer transfer k, to Nasi and both he and his wife
who almost almost single-handedly who has brought this 'feather
working working in
Cawnpore (Kanpur) (Kanpur) Cawnpore
Regirrent Regirrent
and and tourist
offered offered a
Arr.an Arr.an
never never recovered
Val land land Val
was was
Cerretery, Cerretery,
curiosity curiosity
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cency cency
fianc~e fianc~e
new Calcutta Calcutta new paper 'The Metropolitan' carried three pages of exquisite
Presi Presi
'Dence' 'Dence' and being 'Hankow' mutilated in transmission. Robert's mother
torical torical
the the city for the generation oncoming as a beautiful landscape of his
day, day, the article concludes 'as reminiscence of the glorious past of
in in the city's cap' to the notice of its townspeople. It remains to
like like the ... sketch and there was a surrounding wall. Apparently a
'The 'The Ghost of Garhwal' was the topic of a recent article marking
and and to
Kacheri Kacheri
have have recently given in depth coverage to of two them. Firstly the
and and this had revealed a short stretch of wall previously covered with
led led to see it, only saw a hedge, so they went to live there. Soon
newspaper articles articles newspaper on cemeteries in the East and Indian reporters
Coming back back to Coming the present is Chowkidar always interested to receive
locations? locations?
received received a garbled telegram third' 'Bence died Hongkong the words
or or an apocryphal one that appears from time to time set in different
shrubs shrubs and grass. Is this story? a wellknown asks our correspondent,
gardener gardener had cleared section an overgrown after the husband's visit
return return from the dead.
after after she died. friend A photographed the grave, which looked just
turned turned to one of pride that Captain had cared X for enough to them
cemetery cemetery had a stone wall surrounding it as in her dream. travel He
drew for for drew the next man morning, a sketch a showing grave with her name that that all cemeteries European have been razed in China, though copies
and and
Constance White, White, Constance daughter of an judge ICS and mother of the novelist
by Jane Manaster who came across across by Jane came who Manaster it in the of unpublished memoirs
centred centred round the and his Regiment devotion to his men, whom from Another Another story involving the supernatural has been sent in Texas, from
the the Rifles Garhwal Royal left to fight in by their France accompanied
turesque turesque little of cantonment Lansdowne. During the first War World siderably siderably to raise the morale of the and their men initial terror
this this year's centenary of the Regiment, celebrated Garhwal in the pic
horse, horse, the ghostly Captain was challenged by a sentry fired who in
on on the headstone, and she asked him to refuse the position if the
A.C. Dence asks asks A.C. Dence if the grave might still survive. Sadly know we
fered fered heavy casualties, Captain them X. among couple A of years later
T.H. T.H. White.
however he demanded efficiency efficiency he however demanded and a meticulous turn out. While the
Adjutant, Adjutant, only identified as 'Captain X'. life whose was a He man
panic panic as horse and rider disappeared. But the apparition helped con
of of burial some registers still may exist and enquiries are in progress.
by men on on guard by men duty and British officers. Motionless, on a white
Garhwalis Garhwalis distinguished themselves at Chapelle Neuve they also suf
were were pleased. one night Then the wife had a nightmare, which she
when the the when depleted was was held and it was then that the spectre first appeared and was seen
friend friend
Lumpur. Lumpur. His
throu9ha throu9ha
simple simple inscription
with with the
Cemetery, Cemetery, Kuala
1g6Qs 1g6Qs
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Civilian Civilian
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inthe
BACSA member, Daphne Clay, Clay, be would so Daphne grateful member, for BACSA
of every remembrance of of of you'. every remembrance His widow,
to to the sickness and loneliness attend which their labours.
thank thank God
a a victim
'I 'I
'It 'It a was sad occasion in the history of the fine service, to which
reassurance reassurance that the is tomb still in order. good
about him would be welcomed by by a descendant about be would welcomed Mr. L.E. him Edwards. lar lar died who on 18th 1946. August After Scoular James being a POW,
it it is situated belonged to the civil authorities, but I have since and and on d1ed 17 July at 1832 Landaur, Uttar Pradesh. information Any
erected erected over the grave in the early
John William Hanson was a a was Serjeant Troop John Hanson William of the 11th Light Dragoons
stone stone still survives and if so what condition it is in.
Members may also also may be able Members to help with three brief queries: local local stone. niece, Thomas' if Yin wonders Mrs. Barns G. Now Saw the
returned returned to to Malaya re-organise a firm he represented, leaving his Department land land Department and be properly tended and cared for'. monument The
and and long-standing
his his resting place as 'very simple and very nice. garden The in which
his his grave was not erected until 1917. colleague A later described
accident accident and was buried
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he he belonged and which has thus lost another of its brilliant members
Lieutenant Lieutenant of Governor the State (then the United Provinces) wrote:
Forest Forest Service shot who himself at Senapani, Uttar Pradesh on 19 Dec
got got to them give it over to me. grave The will thus be on Forest
generations generations of Britons, often isolated up-country, miles their from A more recent recent more A but equally tragic death was that of Secu Murray James
these these days of but speedy communications, it took its toll on earlier widow was never never was able widow to visit the tomb, but a friend had a stone slab
wife wife son and young to follow in a time. months few died He in an
ember 1914, 1914, ember aged thirty-four years. In a letter of condolence, the
was a a was cross of Italian marble standing on steps with a large slab of
mother mother it must solace be some to that know almost his last thoughts
records records give any details of their mother. Ideas on other lines of
His His death sudden has been so great a shock to all his friends. his To
fellow fellow countrymen. Carr such of victim One Thomas the was Indian
in in 1871. outlived Mary her by nearly husband forty years, dying at
be be brought up sister by Thomas' Eliza, lived who in Kensington, but
sixteen. sixteen. had nine and Mary children Thomas and returned to England
born born about 1846, both in Singapore. boys were The sent to to England
Elaine Elaine Wiltshire. Commissioner Dunman, 4th On January Thomas 1847 were were of her'. was buried at over Thomas Tanakpur, though a monument
the the ripe old age of ninety-five, in 1926. But the mystery starts when
neither neither are in mentioned their father's Will, nor do the Singapore
The The loneliness of remote Indian postings is forgotten sometimes in
to to Mary, though he described himself as a bachelor on his wedding-day.
enquiry enquiry be would appreciated by our correspondent.
of of Police, Esther she was just Singapore Ann when married Crane Mary
The two boys were John Scott Dunman born born about were The Scott, boys two and John James Scott 1841 Dunman
Another Another 'genealogical problem', this time Singapore from is posed by
we learn that Thomas Dunman already already learn we had two sons before that Dunman his Thomas marriage
bib1, bib1,
Mar
Testa
Mrs. Mrs. Farbessian,
'a 'a
and and Frazer. The couple
103 103
Katherine, Katherine, Alexander
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is is unfortunately lost. now Three children were born to
thought thought jr. Walter Need Principal have become may of La
young Scotsman set set Scotsman young to out for take up Bombay the post of
board board the 'Blenden Hall'. Eliza inherited of an income Rs. 20
is is as the being named half-dozen among richest in Armenians Bom
1807 a a 1807
ation. ation.
be be grateful for as any news letters to India have provided no inform
Need jr., jr., Need in Dr. Walter now James his Johnstone-Need eighties, would
have have been the case. did he Where go, did he too have a family and
are are there any descendants still in India? great of A Walter nephew
Martiniere Martiniere but College, a recent Lucknow enquiry this shows not to
in in in Meerut 1812. After the Indian bibi's married death, Need Samuel
garet garet Gill
the the descendants of that Walter Need our correspondent Margaret Gill
again, again, in India to a Scots girl and had five children, more but it ts
the the couple, Walter, John and Catherine and the two were boys baptized during during the up-rising 1857 but left a son, also called Walter.
Walter Need became a a Lieutenant became in Walter Need in 1841. Lucknow was killed He
races races was that of Lieutenant and his Need General Samuel Indian
wishes wishes to trace. Chowkidar's Editor has been able to establish that
prising prising woman.
at at Surat and if anything else is about this known loyal and enter
ianized ianized version of Forbes. Eliza's great-great grand-daughter, Joan
bay bay or Surat in the 1820s'. Farbessian to name The seems be an Armen
Another Another long lasting relationship a between couple different from
per per and is month later tentatively identified with
Holland wonders if if Holland wonders her still tomb survives in Cemetery the Armenian
had had died in infancy.) It on was the return journey to India that
whose name name whose
ment on on ment
a a natural son, Frederick, named before he left Scotland and possibly
terms, terms, Eliza referring to as him Sir'. and Beloved 'Honoured then Why As was the custom among European families, families, European was the As among took custom Theodore Katherine who who
did did conscientiously provide for all his children and the mothers. two
had had already established as and themselves he businessmen in Bombay
Theodore developed developed a Theodore fatal illness and wrote his last Will and
felt, felt, at first that his loyalty lay towards Frederick's mother, Ann
ian ian family residing there. and Eliza Theodore a began relationship and and to Alexander Scotland to be educated. younger boy, {The Frazer
did did they not marry? It be had already because may Theodore fathered
necessitated necessitated by Theodore's work, they corresponded in affectionate himself himself had been trained in mercantile accounts in Aberdeen. Three
Macdonell. Macdonell. simply Or not he may have been 'the marrying kind' 6ut he
three three natural children
fortunate fortunate than most of his contemporaries, as a branch of the family
that that to was last until the fonner's death in produced and which 1820 not not being in the direct line to inherit the family homes. more was He
and and it here was that he met Eliza daughter Kuvork, of a wealthy Armen
were were undoubtedly fond of each other. frequent During separations
CAN YOU HELP? HELP? YOU CAN
the the 'second many sons' had to who seek their fortunes outside Britain,
junior junior writer in the East India Forbes one was of Theodore Company. years years after his arrival he was posted to Surat as Post Deputy Master Jn Jn
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and and Entally Road, Calcutta, probably Whiteaways where
tomb marks his his marks tomb resing place too. This year Stephen Gol
born, born, and
brother brother to the adventurous more Isaac. (Seep. 108)
was was schooled in England, he obviously returned to
w~s w~s
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Provision Provision for made was the next child, if a son and sufficiently light
Store Store was later built. had a He Bengali his bibi first by whom child
employed by by the employed East India Company. Isaac had a house at
was was a daughter (of dark colour).
of of Chowringhee
from from records at the old India Office that Isaac Golledge had been
Golledge Golledge discovered the of tomb his ancestors and was able to confirm
hoogly hoogly
tion tion a aboard Mr. Golledge Hickey's coming ship to guide it up the
1954 before before 1954 his departure for England. first He of aware became his
family's family's Indian connections William from Hickey's men which Memoirs,
Street Street Cemetery, Calcutta. on the came scene, before Long BACSA
Photographs Photographs arrivd recently of a sturdy family in tomb South Park
Stephen Stephen Golledge had got the (to tomb Isaac Golledge) restored in
THE GOLLEDGE FAMILY FAMILY GOLLEDGE THE
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Rawatpindi Rawatpindi
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railways railways though
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daughter daughter Catherine
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interest, interest, including recent tickets. Please contact at: him
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the the largest specialist dealer in Japanese swords in Britain. is He John John is King an Indian enthusiast Railway and is after tic unwanted
sales sales effected through this advertisement. Please contact at him
has has generously agreed to a make substantial on any donation to BACSA
anxious anxious to purchase more, as well as daggers, armour, helmets and
Well Well Cottage, Nr. Lawton, Taunton, Somerset.
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of of have we which to turn but down, may think we members
other other related items including officers' War second World swords. He
Independence. Independence. To bring coherence to such an subject, unwieldy she their their experiences, she will be most grateful. Please contact her at:
Indian Indian life - education, religion, the struggle for Independence
BACSA member (his (his member late grandfather, BACSA then his father were is members),
help help in in India at the time. can If help members in any way, by providing
ed ed letters/journals etc. and first-hand lived who accounts by women
BACSA gets gets all kinds BACSA of requests for information and services, some
intends intends to concentrate on the following: working in a) India, women
during during the War. second World Pat Barr will be studying material 1865 and and married 1865 in St. Joseph's Church, RC
d} women who had had particularly who d} women exciting/harrowing experiences in India
or or suggesting source materials and/or talking to her personally about
1897. 1897. Catherine's
available available in Libraries and archives but hopes to unpublish upon draw 1887. 1887. teachers, teachers, doctors, missionaries, governesses etc. working b) women
through through our Secretary Wilkinson please. Theon
6 Mount Pleasant, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 2DG tel: tel: Pleasant, 6 Mount 2DG Norfolk 55544. 0603 Norwich, NR2
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Several Several years ago published Pat a Barr, member the author and BACSA
similar similar about book British in India women times from Edwardian to Lieutenant James Pembroke served at Lucknow 1860, Moradabad 1864 and and 1864 served Lieutenant 1860, at Moradabad Pembroke James Lucknow
appreciate appreciate could any help give be members bur on may him people who
and and Superintendant of the Office Residency at Srinagar to from 1891
book entitled entitled book about in Victorian India. Memsahibs The women has She
by by Peter Rogers.
from from 1918-1920. details Any of be those would welcomed above named
Multan Multan
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Warburg 1987 1987 Warburg £16.95 pp 536
account account of the Quetta 1935 earthquake as his parents exper
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child, child, the reasons for he which been able has now to esta61ish.
hymns (of (of Greenland's which hymns 'From icy mountains' is the most familiar,
as a Bampton Lecturer, Lecturer, as a Bampton as a preacher of Lincoln's Inn, as the author
net net in Cheshire, a family living of his which elder brother Richard,
for for measure. good went to He Calcutta the from country parish of Hod
undistinguished undistinguished pioneer, Middleton. Bishop His jurisdiction was the
of of a Life of Taylor, Jeremy and as the writer of a large of number
linger linger most pleasantly on the palate of any reader up grew or who
MP for for Oxford, MP patron; was widely, but a more Reginald mark made had
Bishop of Bishop Calcutta. was the He second Bishop, having succeeded his
Bishop Sahib Sahib Bishop Derrick Hughes
Secker Secker
certain certain people and events, of he occasionally which was half-aware ienced ienced it.
This This is a biography of to 1823 from Reginald Heber, was who 1826 graphic graphic
tonment life. life. tonment Trevelyan's gifts as a novelist can be shown
the the intricate contrapuntal of form the work. whole read who Those
trees trees and an index, the last of two
advantage advantage in his affectionate portrait of his mother remarkable - an
whole sub-continent, sub-continent, whole with Ceylon, Australia Zealand in thrown and New
has has ever ventured off the tourist beat. he Although covers historical worked in in worked British India will and which did appeal who to many
evocation evocation of
on on for instance, the siege of the Cawnpore, events leading up to the attractive attractive but restless quite was person who unable to settle to can
The text text The is well supported by excellent illustrations, maps, family
as as a
the the scenes of his early childhood, to Gilgit, the from Andamans and
and and thousands of miles of often uncomfortable travel. His vivid and will will find
velyan made five five velyan made journeys through the subcontinent within the space graphy, graphy, history and travel narrative - the fruit of years of research
sely sely readable, despite the complexity of its structure. Raleigh Tre ter ter British India. The result is a highly unusual blend of autobio
author author has incorporated fresh much and hitherto unpublished material,
between the the between brightest colours. and most sombre It is long but immen family family and others connected with it, had helped to build and adminis
The writer's writer's The ability to portray character can be seen to particular and and other will which ground readers, be familiar the to most BACSA
often often accounts amusing of the latter will strike chords in who anyone of of years seven to gather his material. these During he visited both
Amritsar Amritsar shootings of (particularly 1919 fascinating,
chilling chilling - and its picture of India across centuries two alternates
many of of the many places of in his members which large and distinguished
BACSA BOOKS (books by BACSA members) members) (books by BACSA BOOKS BACSA
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FROM INDIA INDIA FROM
NEWS NEWS
BI CENTENARY CENTENARY BI
hundred years years hundred ago next year the first convict ship landed at
those those visit who India frequently it sometimesseemsthat for every
thus thus decorated, there were infact, five other
In In the Spring edition stated wrongly we of Chowkidar that the Rev.
have have kindly pointed out that whereas he was the first to clergyman be
J.W. Adams was was the only to J.W. Adams clergyman win the Victoria Cross
sult sult of his gallantry at in Kabul 1879. Museum National The Anny
cessionary cessionary rates, not nonnally available, which probably will not come
'Thriving 'Thriving of on Land Dead' in 'The Statesman' this Spring, highlight
celebrations. celebrations. There are hundreds of Britons with kin in Australia,
CORRECTION CORRECTION
again again in our life-times. seeking details more members should BACSA
she she is arranging travel to and from Australia during its bi-centenary
trivial trivial offences. For years the convicts' descendants regarded their
last last month. unate Englishmen and women condemned to to perpetual condemned exile and unate women for Englishmen often ily ily History should be held in Sydney, Australia next year, from 18th
Notts Notts is acting as the British based co-ordinator of the and Congress
to to 23rd October 1988. Elizabeth of Simpson 2 Stella Grove, Tollerton,
Botany Bay, Bay, Australia, Botany bringing with it a motley collection of unfort
write write to Elizabeth Simpson.
fore fore highly appropriate that the First International on Congress Fam brought brought back to pristine wreath was laid condition on it and a BACSA
we are are we reminded, and this is a chance for us to visit at them con Two Two down-under as as its down-under population delves back into the past. It is there
come an an important come in theme present day society. is Genealogy booming
Lucknow is is being Lucknow completely and sensitively restored by the Archaeol
ogical ogical Survey. In particular, the of tomb Sir which Lawrence, Henry
cade cade has the desire to learn of more these involuntary pioneers be
AUSTRALIJI.N AUSTRALIJI.N began in in began 1966. Indian bureaucracy can still in move a byzantine
On a a On positive note, it is to good report that the Cemetery, Residency
ed ed the condition of the cemetery in a very sympathetic manner.
fully fully of aware the problems. long, A illustrated article entitled was giving giving was especial concern Vol. (see 4 Chowkidar No. 5) has been
ters ters and save the have only tombs just started, though encroachment origins origins in Australia as a matter for shame. within Only the last de
fashion. fashion. It is that however to good know India's are newspapers have have been appalled at the condition of Rajpur Delhi. Cemetery, The
step forward BACSA takes, takes, local step forward apathy BACSA takes backwards. two In this
Archaeological Archaeological of Survey India but legal measures to evict the squat
gally gally encroached squatters. area The is under the protection of the
To To
maining tombs can can maining tombs only be by viewed entering of the ille compounds GOOD AND BAD BAD AND GOOD
walled walled site has been so heavily encroached that upon of some the re year year alone both Michael Stokes, our Chairman and Chowkidar's Editor, but by no means the best). His brief episcopate, cut short by drown ?f Moti at last, in this novel, but the pain it caused is evident. It ing in a swimming-bathin Trichinopoly, was most notable. (In these 1s a shocking story - shocking in Moti's total indifference to the days of instant communication, it is salutary to read that it took country where she lived and its people, shocking in her behaviour four months for the news of his sudden death to reach England). More w~ich was the antit~es~s of decent, hard-working family-orientated than half the tenure of his vast see was spent in a sixteen-month lives led by the maJor,ty of India's Servants. But it is not a de tour, with a remarkable retinue, from Calcutta up to Ganges Valley to pressing book -.lucid and ~eauti'.ul~y written, as one would expect Delhi, and then through Rajputana to Bombay. The record of his tour from an accomplished novelist - ,t ,s an often wryly amusing account was kept in a Journal, which was prepared for publication by his widow that moves effortlessly through war time India - a brilliant evocation Amelia in 1828, and which was an enormous popular success, influen of low-life during the Raj. tial reviewers from different political standpoints finding it 'in structive, important and delightful'. The events of that tour form a William Collins 1987 £9.95 pp 175 large and vivid part of Mr. Hughes' biography. As Bishop Heber en couraged the construction of churches in most stations which lacked The Non-Official British in India to 1920 RaymondRenford one, many of the cemeteries in north and west India, which are BACSA's Permissi~n to trade in India was jealously gaurded by the Honorable concern today must date from Heber's time. Bishop Heber was a remark East India Company. In 1793 the number of non-official Europeans in able man; intellectually (he was a Fellow of All Souls), physically Calcutta ~and that included British, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) and spiritually. Mr. Hu~hes, who has first-hand knowledgeof India, was 583 with a mere 281 up-country in the mofussil. Someof these has written a most readable account of his life and work. It incident were bona fide traders, others illegal immigrants who had jumped ship ally throws much light on what Companyrule was like 160 years ago. and 'run the country'. But a Charter in 1833 gave the non-official (BSS) British a right to live in India and from then on the numbers that came out to seek their fortune grew steadily until by 1881 they reach ChurchmanPublishing (or through BACSA)1987 £6.95 ed_s?me 29,000. Shrewd men.and enterprising pioneers they saw opport un1t1es on every hand. Their greatest skill lay in their organising Changes of Address Lee Langley cap~city. ~he~her supplying imported goods for the up-country market This is a most unusual novel by a BACSAauthor. It is the story of a or 1n negot1at1ng for the growth of indigo or taking on labour for the monster - the narrator's mother, nicknamed Moti. Moti was an officer's newly established tea gardens or setting up AgencyHouses in Calcutta wife in India, in the 1930s. She leaves her husband and home in Cawn and maintaining links with London, they worked hard and prospered. pore, takes her nine-year old daughter with her and sets out through Somewere rogues whose names appear in notorious court cases but the northern India with no other purpose than to have a good time. She majority settled down to establish family concerns that made a special doesn't 'go native' - she despises Indians and never bothers to learn contribution to the economic growth and development of the country. more than a few words of kitchen Hindustani. Riots and political ev Gove~nmentand army circles tended to look downon the non-officials, ents are merely an inconvenience. A 'good time' is drifting fromone dubbing them Box Wallahs and assuming that if a profit was made it elegant bar to another, nice restaurants, plush hotels and always a could only have been at the expense and exploitation of the natives. new man to keep her for a while, introduced to her daughter Maggie as ~ut the no~-officials sa,.i themselves differently, as being more truly another Uncle. Moti was not a prostitute in the usual sense, but she 1n touch with the people of the country. They were not subject to accepted money, acco111T10dationand drink from men as long as they am cons~ant postings, they were ab~e to put down roots and identify close used here. In return she gave them herself, for longer or shorter ly w~th the places where they lived. They were great committee members, periods. She was undoubtedly a witty and attractive woman. But the forming self-help groups for every conceivable need of their local price her daughter had to pay was horrific. Dragged about, from community. The officials might govern India and the army keep the hotels to Armenian boarding houses (when moneywas low) the couple peace but the non-officials argued, it was they who more than anyone often had to make moonlight flits, sometimes with literally only the understood the importance of co-operation with the Indians. In this clothes they stood up in. Reading Alice in WonderlandMaggie imned book Renford has chosen to cover the whole spectrum, from the early iately identifies herself with the heroine who 'changes size, shape, days of the Companyto 1920 - it is a pity he did not go a little identity, betrayed by familiar objects. Moti was a combination of further and take it to 1947 - using material from his thesis on the Red Queen, Duchess and MadHatter: like them, she seemed ruled by a ~ubject. As well ~s the many.aspects of the business community,plant logic not available to the rest of us'. Maggie was often left to ing, commerceand industry, his survey also includes the influence and fend for herself and emerges as a female Kim- a child becomingwise cont~ibution made by ~issionaries, doctors, teachers, newspapermen, in the ways of the bazaar. Unlike Kimher one desire is to go to barristers and the railway community. The author describes how the school, to be normal and lead an ordered life. Her mother frustrates community, in self protection against an often unsympathetic govern her at every turn, continually embarrases her and removes her from ment, formed itself into the European Association, the Defence Assoc every possible new friend or ally. Maggie has exorcised the demonof iation and into Chambersof Commerce. These pressure groups played
111 112 a recognised and influential role and their leaders were rewarded that we gain an early and valuable picture of the land-locked medie with knighthoods and honours in more recent years. This is an impres val county, embroiled in internecine warfare. Constant bureaucratic sive work, most studiously and thoroughly researched, with detailed delays and understandable suspicions of the emissaries from India's and meticulous notes, a valuable basis for serious reading or student new master meant that many travellers spent considerably longer in research. The very fact that it is a comprehensive study limits the Bhutan than they had anticipated. It was not until the hard-fought amount of humaninterest that could be included but the delightful war of 1864-5, when the Bhutanese met British troops with bows and incident recorded in the appendices when the Bihar MountedRifles arrows that any kind of lasting dialogue was established between the planned to abduct the Viceroy if he forced through the dreaded Ilbert two countries, and then it was naturally on an unequal footing since Bill gives a clue to the independent spirit of the non-officials and British India had annexed large tracts of Bhutanese land. Collister the high feelings that often lie behind the dry minutes of committee has meticulously traced the history of Anglo-Bhutanese relations but one must conclude that despite the 'Men of Vision' both Bhutanese and meetings. (ZY) British, the former received the worst of a bad bargain, in spite of Oxford University Press 19B7 Rs. 220 (Available from OUPLondon) people like John Claude White, an outstanding example of 'the many lesser knownadministrators' who had a genuine love nf the country Encyclopedia of Indian Natural History R.E. Hawkins (ed.) even at the expense of grumbling from Calcutta. The book is exten In 1883, the year Gordonwas sent to Khartoum, eight gentlemen of Bom sively illustrated with excellent early photographs including some bay met to form the BombayNatural History Society. Its work of sur of King UgyenWangchuk, taken at Bumthangin 1905, where he is quite veying, collecting and researching the flora and fauna of the sub-con outnumbered by his female relatives, sturdy and unveiled women.It tinent, and its well-known journal, have brought it international re provides a useful reminder that Bhutan is not just an interesting spect and it has now celebrated its centenary by bringing out a major adjunct to northern India. publication in conjunction with OUP- this one-volume Encyclopedia. Serindia Publications 1987 £16.50 pp 210 It is a delight. It covers, of course, the whole sub-continent, not India alone, and will be of use even further afield, since I cannot Hostages to India Herbert Stark think of any work as compact as this which will, for instance, clarify 'Evolution' or ,.Molluscs' (the drawings of shellfish are particularly This book was 'required reading' for Anglo-Indians before 1947 and is good). Nor is the book too weighty to be used in the field, or by a sorrowful indictment of their treatment at British and Indian hands. travellers to India who have felt the lack of handbooks on wild life. The earliest European soldiers, the Portuguese, were actively encour The book's sections are edited by scholars of repute, and there is a aged to seek Indian wives, in order to further trade links and spread wealth of line drawings and diagrams, the initial letter of the alpha the doctrine of Christianity through marriage. The East India Company betical sections being charmingly illuminated by appropriate birds of the 17th century so far approved, as to give a pagoda to each child and beasts. With over 500 entries, and over 90 contributors, editorial born of such relationships. The names of adventurous Anglo-Indians control is important. But more has been achieved than the mere avoid ring through the history of the next century - the Gardners, Hearsays, ance of scientific jabberwocky. The prose is direct and pleasing S~i ~ners, and Forsters. Their especi a 1 ta 1ents lay in bri ciging the throughout, clearing the mud even from the troubled waters of 'Classi d1v1ctebetween the rulers and the r.uled thrc,ugh family connections ficiation' and 'Naming'. To pick one entry at random, how succinctly anc language. But discrimination began by the 1780s for a numberof complex reasons. The author traced British jealousy, fear of a pos the 'Camels foot climber' is described for us: 'Its deeply cleft leaves sible uprising, as had happened in Haiti and the increasing numberof resemble the footprint of a camel, and are auctioned by the Forest English womenin India, which made mixed marriages 'superfluous' Department as a wrapper for pan leaf. The pods twist open with a loud though they had been expedient enough earlier. A short review cannot pop. The stems are used for making suspension bridges and ropes'. A do justice to the vicissitudes and struggles of the Anglo-Indians. key work, and visitors to the ~ub-continent will get it at the sub Perhaps the saddest page is the last. If India was granted Dominion sidised price of Rs. 245. (JHJ) Status (rememberthis was written in 1926) Stark wrote 'England must Oxford University Press 1986 Rs. 245 pp 620 (Available from OUP demandand India must guarantee, that we are effectively protected as London) Citizens of India. Wedo not seek preferential treatment. Weaspire to equal partnership'. Bhutan and the British Peter Collister First published 1926 this facsimile reprinted by BACSA1987 Bhutan has always suffered the indignity of being a buffer state pp 143 £5.50 including pasta~ and packing situated as it is between India to its south and Tibet to its no;th. .I I~d:ed, th: fi:st British mission, led by George Bogle of the Bengal The Khyber Connection - the furrow and the Raj Ashley Cooper C1v1l Service ,n 1774 regarded the country as a mere preliminary on In 1977 a young farmer from the HomeCounties visited India for six the more exciting adventure to Tibet. But it is from Bogle's reports weeks and came homewith the normal exhilaration that a first visit J 113 114 that
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Beneath the PeacockFan Marian Fowler 1986 pp 1986 240 £4.50 from the author stead, at Essex, Hill including Farm, Gestingthorpe, postage and Has-packing.
in their neighbourhoods. own
probably have given up immediately. has Cooper plougheda furrow new which yieldswhich a valuable crop and whichshould be followed by others
of it, in a pedantic and fact-finding way, a trained journalist would uable. historian An have would tackled the subject, if he had thought tions. But it is precisely his this rawnessmakeswhich bookso val Khyber plays Khyber only a small part in his discovery of our Indian connec
his prose does not a always flow few simple likemistakes in an experienced names, and writer's, he makes looking at India which had not been previously considered - her impact on the English, in England. There have to be very minor quibbles -
of our recent past from a different angle, and has up opened a of way historians, amateur and academic. has He an examinedimportant piece
of anyoneremotely interested in India and is a to work be noted by many English manywinters. Cooper's bookis one that merits the admiration blanket crocheted in at that 1919 Lucknow kept its snug makerduring soldiers, in tombstones mossy recording those returned, who in an old
ly unpublished letters and diaries of neighbours lived who in India. with India - in casual conversations over with a hedgerowretired As news of Asnews the author's obsession grew, he foundand linksmoremore
notes local firms dependant on Indian imports like W. Sudbury factured by Ransomes
community whose sons whose and daughters community were in India. exports sent finds He abroad, local including the splendid 'Elephant Plough' manu how news of news thehow up-rising 1857 filtered slowly through to the rural editions of his local paper 'The Suffolk and Essex Free Press' to see of India on one small area of England. looks Cooper at 19th century but an original and highly successful attempt to the examine impact Raj. This is not however, just another collection of reminiscences, life, to retired officers ICS and theand children memsahibs of the neighbours, from the old soldiers with their of memories cantonment ing to local found peoplethat on the India Suffolk-Essex had played border a wherehe majorworks, role Cooper in the lives ofof manyhis this bookis the twist that his later explorations were to take. Talk
subsequent determination to learn all he could of the country which to the sub-continent produces. had enthralled Nothing unusual in briefly, him that, nor as in a his tourist. But what is unusual about A valuable book and a worthy successor to the author's Discover the Monumentsof Bangladesh. Illustrated. University Press Dacca 1987 £6.95 incl. Postage & Packing from Belitha Press, 31 Newington Green N 16 9PU, tel: 241 5566 pp. 151 Dawnslike Thunder Alfred Draper This is an account of the British Army's retreat before the Japanese in the early months of 1942 'the longest and most terrifying with drawal in the history of the British army'. It follows hard on the heels of James Lunt's very readable book A Hell of a Lickinf, publish ed last year; both accounts deserve to be read by anyone 1n erested in the Burmacampaign. Draper has put together a number of reports, memoirs, official and private, military sources and interviews with manyof the survivors. He has done the job skilfully, making a con tinuous narrative of the patchwork of reminiscence and reporting, tak ing us from Christmas and tennis parties in Rangoonto the last corpse ridden river crossing at the frontier of India at the onset of the monsoona few months later. His style is matter-of-fact and his des criptions of action are forceful and graphic. A good deal of the time we are in the midst of events which are extremely distressing and hum iliating, caused in part by organizational blunders. To this day it is still painful to read of the extraordinary lack of preparation on the part of the civil and military authorities in Burma, although, to be fair, the author also points the finger at Whitehall and its years of penny-pinching policies, which led to this state of affairs. The centre-piece of the book is inevitably the account of the battle at the Sittang bridge, the decisive battle, and the fatal blowing of the bridge on February 23rd. Draper gives no excuses to the two British generals, Hutton and Smyth, but he makes clear the desperate dilemmas and insurmountable diffi culties they faced, not least of which was an utterly ineffective com munications system. His excellent account does full justice to the tragic theme: enormous confusion, chaos and all the quicksand horror of war, buthe sees its epic quality too and the stories of occasional courage and initiative shine out like silver. Draper does not conceal his dislike of Wavell but he reserves his real scorn for the civil administration in Burmaand the British way of life. On this topic his tone is savage and unforgiving. He writes of 'decay and stagna tion' and paints a picture of a European society apparently made up of second-rate parvenues, their lives enfeebled by selfishness and snobbery. Someof his anecdotes will make the reader blush but on the whole in these passages one sensesthat Draper has abandoned the role of historian for that of caricaturist. The book is well produced with good maps and photographs but it is odd to come across a public ation which is thoroughly indexed yet at the same time lacks a Con tents page and chapter heads.(JW) Leo Cooper 1987 £17.95 pp 302 * * * * * *
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