Zulu Dawn:“Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”
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Posts : 2305 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:53 pm
Kenny,
Wrong continent I’m afraid.
I believe her father was more a Company employee...
JY
SRB1965
Posts : 889 Join date : 2017-05-13 Age : 56 Location : Uttoxeter - the last place God made and he couldn't be bothered to finish it.....
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:06 pm
Something to do with India then?
Chelmsfordthescapegoat
Posts : 2585 Join date : 2009-04-24
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:16 pm
JY. Has she been mentioned on the forum in any of the past discussions.
John Young
Posts : 2305 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:05 pm
CTSG,
Having made a search of forum, she not mentioned directly, however her husband and their children have been mentioned.
Sime,
India, indeed. In fact the lady in the photograph was born in what was then India.
JY
SRB1965
Posts : 889 Join date : 2017-05-13 Age : 56 Location : Uttoxeter - the last place God made and he couldn't be bothered to finish it.....
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:54 pm
Given the clue..."what was then India" she was born in Pakistan, Bangladesh or India (in case JY bowled a googly...."was and still is")......../
John Young
Posts : 2305 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Sat Jan 05, 2019 12:10 pm
To further the Indian connection she married her husband in the city of Karachi, in what is now the Sindh Province of Pakistan, what was then Sind, part of the Bombay Presidency.
JY
Kenny
Posts : 450 Join date : 2013-05-07 Location : Brecon
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Sat Jan 05, 2019 12:36 pm
John,
It is Catherine whose husband has a statue by Thomas Brock in the Victoria Embankment Gardens, London
John Young
Posts : 2305 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:19 pm
Kenny,
Ron has already unsuccessfully tried Lady Frere.
I introduced that statue of a son of Breconshire to a delegation of the Zulu Royal House back in October.
I’m always surprised that it was raised by public subscription. I wonder if the widows and orphans of Confederation Policy chipped in.
JY
Kenny
Posts : 450 Join date : 2013-05-07 Location : Brecon
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:48 pm
John
It’s taken me too long - obviously old age is dulling my brain - it is Adria whose husband died playing billiards in the building now the HQ of the Institute of Directors.
John Young
Posts : 2305 Join date : 2013-09-08 Age : 65 Location : Lower Sheering, Essex
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:13 pm
Kenny,
Well done!
Taken at the same studio with same props. The husband of Adria Frances (“Fanny”) Thesiger, nee Heath. The daughter of Major-General John Heath, Indian Army.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Frederic Augustus Thesiger. (John Young Collection.)
Keep up the good work!
Just
Kenny
Posts : 450 Join date : 2013-05-07 Location : Brecon
Subject: Re: Festive Fun photograph quiz! Sat Jan 05, 2019 6:31 pm
John, I have a two volume set entitled ‘Soldiers of the Victorian Age’ by Charles Rathbone Low - I think he served in the Indian Navy. The books were published in 1880 just after AZW. His summary relating to LC I quote ‘A strict disciplinarian and total abstained, Lord Chelmsford personally has always been popular in the army, while his upright character and blameless life have acquired for him the respect and affection of his numerous friends’.
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