PETER JOACHIM |
Peter and a buddy, Dicky Tristram were said to have been shooting at crows that perched on the lightening conductor on the dome of the hospital behind his apartment building. A crow he was aiming at flew as he was to fire. In frustration he put the gun down butt first and the gun discharged killing him on the spot. He was buried in the Nishatganj Cemetery.
Peter belonged to a railway family and studied in St Francis School (now college), Lucknow.
MATILDA RAYMONDA JOACHIM, Peter's mother, died in the USA on the 19th March 2002 at the age of 92. She was born on 24th February 1909. One of Peter's sisters, Jacky, who remained unmarried, still lives in Lucknow. Mr Joe, short for Joachim, died several years later in Lucknow.
BENJAMIN C. JOACHIM DIED 1979 |