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In Lucknow, as in other parts of the world, graves mean little to some people, but a search on the internet proves otherwise! What one will find on this blog isn't even 'a drop in the vast ocean' of tears that would have been shed if it were possible to calculate. The names, the sad poetry, quotes and expression of grief of the loved ones all being ground to dust. "...We always say that the history of a parish is in its graveyards..." Passage West (from a blog and book by Jim Murphy)

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Peter Joachim 1942-1959

PETER JOACHIM

PETER JOACHIM died in a shooting accident at his home A10 Lawrence Terrace, Lucknow in April (?) 1959. He was just 17.
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

1 comment:

UnknownMarch 30, 2014 at 12:35 PM
Dear George

Thank you so much for posting this. Peter Joachim is my dad's cousin. My dad had told me about his accident but not to the extent of what happened since he left Lucknow years earlier. Peter's dad Benji and my Grandfather Harry David were brothers.

Again. Thank you so much for this post. IT means an awful lot to know.
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