Harry Payne Gallwey died 1895, Capt Henry Helsham died 1874

CAPTAIN HENRY HELSHAM
DIED AT COLOMBO
2ND MARCH 1874
AGED 41 YEARS

HARRY PAYNE GALLWEY
DIED AT CALCUTTA 1895
***
Plaques in the Holy Trinity Church,
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Pic: Brian Fernandez

Lady Lina Ridgeway died 1907

Lady Lina Ridgeway died 1907

Kate Reid died 1884 - Aged 29 years
(Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya,
 Sri Lanka Pic Brian Fernandez)

James Archibald Roberts died 1900

IN
LOVING 
MEMORY
OF
JAMES ARCHIBALD ROBERTS
WHO DIED OCTOBER 24TH 1900
AGED 61
"UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING
 ARMS"
*
ALSO OF
COLIN ENSCOE ROBERTS
YOUNGEST SON OF THE ABOVE
 WHO DIED AT DENVER, COLORADO
FEB 3RD 1914  AGED 27
"WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE
 LOVE OF  CHRIST" Romans 8:35
* *
ALSO OF
MARIAN
WIFE OF
JAMES ARCHIBALD ROBERTS
WHO DIED IN LONDON
ON THE 13TH JUNE 1930
AGED 77 YEARS
THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE
DEUT: 33:27
*
(Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya,
Sri Lanka Pic Brian Fernandez)

Lt Col Forbes Griffith Saunder died 1928

IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
LT COL. FORBES GRIFFITH SAUNDER V.D.?
LATE 7TH BATT RIFLE BRIGADE AND CEYLON
LIGHT INFANTRY
BORN AT CAPE TOWN, DEC 20TH 1881
DIED AT NUWARA ELIYA, JULY  28th 1928
FOR 30 YEARS A RESIDENT OF THIS PARISH.
(Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya,
Sri Lanka. Pic Brian Fernandez)

Lionel Saxton Lushington, 7 yrs, died 1923

A shot of the cemetery

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
LIONEL SAXTON
THE BELOVED SON OF
ARTHUR AND BERYL LUSHINGTON
WHO DIED JUNE 20TH  1923?
AGED 7 YEARS
(Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Pic: Brian Fernandez)

Ada E. Hall died 1906

In Memory
of
ADA E. HALL
BELOVED WIFE OF
LIEUT COLONEL CHARLES HALL A??
WHO DIED AT NUWARA ELIYA
7TH APRIL 1906
**
WHEN THOU PASSEST THROUGH THE
 WATERS
I SHALL BE WITH THEE  ISAIAH
(Holy Trinity Church, Nuwara Eliya,
Sri Lanka
Pic Brian Fernandez)

S.G. Martyn died 1942

920268 LDG AIRCRAFTMAN
S.G. MARTYN
ROYAL AIR FORCE
20TH OCTOBER 1942
LOVED IN LIFE
STILL TREASURED IN DEATH
IN GOD'S CARE
**
(Holy Trinity Church cemetery,
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Pic: Brian Fernandez)

Corporal A.A. Baldock, 27 yrs, died 1943

911856 CORPORAL
A.A. BALDOCK 
(Albert Arthur)
ROYAL AIR FORCE
4TH FEBRUARY 1943 AGE 27
**
SLEEP ON, DEAR ONE,
AND TAKE YOUR REST
***
(Holy Trinity Church cemetery,
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Pic: Brian Fernandez)

Evelyn E. Brown, 22 yrs, killed 1943

EVELYN ELLETT BROWN
PETTY OFFICER WREN WRNS 9441
HMS "LANKA"
29TH OCTOBER 1943 AGE 22
**
DAUGHTER OF
DR AND MRS WILLIAM BROWN
OF OXFORD AND LONDON
***
(The Holy Trinity Church Cemetery,
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Pic: Brian Fernandez)

Margaret Brine died 1892 (Sri Lanka)

IN MEMORY OF
MARGARET
THE LOVING AND BELOVED WIFE OF
THE REV JAMES E.B. BRINE
VICAR OF THIS PARISH
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
FEB 20TH 1892 AGED 29
**
IN THE WORLD TO COME LIFE EVERLASTING
*********
(From Brian Fernandez who
visited the Holy Trinity Church,
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka)

A tribute to Edgar Tuck Dec 1932 -- Dec 2017

Nelson Gardner -- The passing of a dear friend and colleague

A tribute sent to Clayton Roberts in Perth, Australia

Edgar Tuck c. 1966

Dear Clayton,
Could you forward these few words on to all those Martinians who remember the  teachers of
the same era of our beloved late Edgar Tuck 1950 and late 60's

Edgar and I grew up together in Allahabad, one of the University Cities of Uttar Pradesh, India
While we did not go to the same school, we did our Teacher Training at the same college. We happened to be the first two men students at St Mary's Training College when it became co-ed.
We taught together for a short period in Allahabad,  Boy's High School before Edgar left for Sherwood College Naini Tal, and then later to the La Martiniere College, Lucknow. We did o
ur University studies together and even qualified in the same subjects for our Bachelor, and Master's Degrees.

My wife, Thea and I have known Edgar for over 75 years, he was a dear friend, colleague and mentor. He was the Best Man at our wedding 59 years ago. What a shock to us when we got the news of his demise on the eve of our 59th Wedding Anniversary, and 3 days before his 85th birthday. We often talked on the phone and frequently visited him in Brisbane.

Thea and I are still grieving the loss of this wonderful person, who was not only a dedicated teacher, but full of compassion and sincerity. Two days ago we received a Anniversary Card from Edgar. He dictated those lovely words that will be in our memory forever. Wishing us and recalling how he got to our wedding from Lucknow to Kanpur, in Hugh Dignam's Morris Car along with Betty and Phyllis Larkins. But most of all expressing his regret as he had planned to surprise us for our 60th Anniversary.

This wonderful, gentleman, was not only a mentor to me but also like a brother. I joined the Martiniere in Jan. 1958. Edgar was responsible for getting me the teaching position in the Martiniere, where I remained till Dec. 1968, before leaving for Australia. We were young, fresh teachers who were keen and ambitious. Bryan Cooke, Mel Green, Edgar Tuck, Nelson Gardner. That is when I learned to play Lawn TEnnis; which I play to this day. One of the few schools that has grass courts for staff to enjoy, what a privilege!

As we journey through LIFE we meet and interact with many people, but those who touch our lives remain with us forever. Edgar. deserves all the great and wonderful accolades, he was a GIANT, not only in the Feld of EDUCATION but in every way; and those who knew him, have sincerely been touched by his compassion, dedication and sincerity.

I can think of no better words than those I borrow from Longfellow's poem, The Psalm of Life, with apologies to WW Longfellow.

People like Edgar remind us of & Leave us with "FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME."
THANK YOU, DEAR FRIEND, Goodbye! Hail, Hail, the name we own..."

Thea & I shall cherish all the memories Edgar left us with of Allahabad, Lucknow, but most of all most of all our years in the Lucknow La Martiniere as colleagues. May HE REST IN PEACE!

Nelso and Thea Gardner

(Copied to the best of my ability -- Blogger

Jason Y. Abraham 1948--1995, Farida Abraham 1951--2016

IN EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
MRS FARIDA ABRAHAM
BORN 29TH JANUARY 1951
DIED 12 FEBRUARY 2016
**
La Martiniere Girls' College,
Luckno Principal for several
years till death.

IN FOND MEMORY OF
JASON Y. ABRAHAM
BORN 28TH fEBRUARY, 1948
DIED 11TH MARCH, 1995
Spouse
(Nishatganj Cem., Lucknow)

Marguerite M Whittaker 1922-- 2004

In Loving Memory Of Our Beloved Aunt
'BITIA'
MARGUERITE M. WHITTAKER
14--8--1922 TO 30--1--2004
(Relative of the Dr John Charles' family)

Dr John Charles 1917--1995 Dr Eleanor Charles 1926--2010

In Loving MemoryOf Our Beloved Mother
MAMA
DR ELEANOR C. CHARLES
30--12--1926 TO 22--6--2010
**
Dr Eleanor Charles was attached to
the Nur Manzil Psychiatric Center,
Lucknow, if you memory serves
me right.

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
DR JOHN BARNBY CHARLES
BORN: 15TH OCTOBER 1917
DIED: 5TH JANUARY 1995**
Dr Charles was a doctor in the Indian
Army. He was the La Martiniere College
doctor for many years

Myrtle De Castro, 91, died 1994

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
MYRTLE DE CASTRO
DIED 30 OCT 1994
AGED 91 YEARS
*
SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
**
According to fibis Myrtle's name
appears in the La Martiniere
Girls School records 1919 and
1922. She worked as a matron
in the school in the 1970s.
She was from a Gonda railway
family

George Perry 1942--1995

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
GEORGE PERRY
BORN 18TH SEPTEMBER
DIED 17TH JANUARY 1995
**
Brother of Late Maurice, Anthony
and James (Jumbo), Jemima,
Philomena, Gertrude, Mary and Joan
(Musician brothers) 

Gonda Cemetery***

Bengal & North-Western Railway
(BNWR 1913)

A century old cemetery with just about half a 
dozen graves in decent condition and a few 
more rectangular holes that must be graves   











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Millicent Norine Cooke, 10 months 26 days, died 1921

Sacred to the Memory of
MILLICENT NORINE
YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF
MR & MRS COOKE, GONDA
BORN 19TH MARCH 1920
DIED 13TH FEBRUARY 1921
AGED 10 MONTHS 26 DAYS
*
SAFELY, SAFELY GATHERED IN,
FAR FROM SORROW, FAR FROM SIN,
GOD HAS SAVED FROM WEARY STRIFE,
IN ITS DAWN, THIS FRESH YOUNG LIFE
(Gonda Cemetery)
**

**

The Cooke family's connection to Gonda
and the railways goes back 100 years
at the very least. Capt Robert Cooke,
a friend of this blogger, said he wasn't
aware of Millicent but said she must 
have been an elder sibling to his 
father, Henry and brothers Donald 
and Malcolm. Henry a retired NER guard 
died in Lucknow in 1999. Robert also said 
his maternal grandparents, the Ollivers and 
paternal grand parents died in Gonda. Sadly, 
there is no sign of their graves. Robert's  
mother Ida Cooke (nee Olliver) died in
Lucknow in 2003. Ida's mother was 
a De Castro.

Gonda: Allan J D'Cruz died Nov 21, 2017

ALLAN JOSEPH D'CRUZ
Died 21 Nov 2017
Buried 23 Nov 2017  by the side of the
tree in the pic. The smoke is from the burning agarbattis .
*
Elder brother
LIONEL DESMOND D'CRUZ
A retired NER driver
Born 23--03--1944
Died 19--05--2010
**
Aunt, mother's sister
MRS MAVIS T VAL DEREMAO
(nee Gomez)
BORN 10--10--1933
DIED 12--07--2006
*
Mother
MRS MILLICENT C. D'CRUZ
(nee Gomez)
BORN 13--8--1924
DIED 8--3--2012
*
Widow of
Anthony Frederick D'Cruz
A boiler Inspector on
the railways posted for
several years in Jamalpur.
*
(Gonda Cemetery)

MARION D'CRUZ
WIDOW OF LIONEL D'CRUZ
DIED 11 DEC 2018
**
PHILOMENA D'CRUZ
WIDOW OF ALLAN D'CRUZ
DIED 1 APRIL 2018

Doreen Lillian Bickers, 11 yrs, died 1921

In Loving Memory
of
DOREEN LILLIAN BICKERS
BORN 1ST OCTOBER 1910
DIED 21ST DECEMBER 1921
*
MOTHER WEEP NOT FATHER GRIEVE NOT...
(Gonda Cemetery)

Charles Ray Augier, 84 years, died 1933

SACRED TO THE
 MEMORY OF
CHARLES RAY AUGIER
WHO PASSED AWAY
AT GONDA ON THE
20TH JANUARY 1933
AGED 84 YEARS
THERE IS A CHAIN
DEATH CANNOT SEVER LOVE
AND REMEMBRANCE
LAST FOR EVER
*
According to Fibis.org Charles Ray Augier
married Millicent Harriett Sheen, daughter
of Austin George Sheen at Saharanpore at the
Roman Catholic Church and afterwards at
St Thomas Church
(Gonda Cemetery)

Baby Edith Blanch Margreate De Castro died 1927***

BABY
EDITH BLANCH MARGREATE DE CASTRO
BORN 12 MARCH
EXPIRED 28TH AUGUST 1927
AGE 5 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS
*
AN ANGEL TOOK MY FLOWER AWAY
YET WE WILL NOT REPINE
SINCE JESUS ON HIS BOSOM WEARS
THE FLOWER THAT ONCE WAS MINE
(Gonda Cemetery)

**
Graves


dying 
The Cooke family's connection to Gonda
and the railways goes back 100 years
at the very least, as the burials in this
cemetery indicate...
... still to check is the relationship
through marriage between
the de Castro family and the Cookes

Basil Ignatious Joseph 1927--1988

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
BASIL IGNATIOUS JOSEPH
BORN 24-10-1927
DIED 11-01-1988
*
Headmaster at St Francis College,
Lucknow for many years

Lieut Kenneth Percival Elloy died 1959

LIEUT KENNETH PERCIVAL ELLOY.
BELOVED FATHER OF
MALCOLM AND GERRY
DIED FEBRUARY 8, 1959
(Bandariabagh Cem., Lucknow)

Mrs Gladys Alne died cir 1989

MRS GLADYS ALNE
Died cir 1989
(Relative of Donald Alne
and the Jacob family)

Mrs P Chand died cir 1989

MRS P CHAND
Died cir 1989
(Nishatganj Cem., Lucknow)

John Henry Jones died in 1988

JOHN HENRY JONES
DIED CIR. 1988
Predeceased by his wife
MARIE VIEGAS JONES (nee KEELOR)
1927-1993

Miss H.S. Hancock died cir 1989 and C.W. Labanti 1917--1989

MISS H.S. HANCOCK
DIED cir. 1989
(Nishatganj Cem., Lucknow)

C.W. LABANTI
BORN 5 OCTOBER 1917
DIED 9 AUGUST 1989

Japan Air Lines plane crash 1972

                                IN
                            MEMORY
                                  OF
THOSE WHO DIED IN THE AIR DISASTER AT JAITPURA,
NEAR DELHI ON 14TH JUNE 1972 WHOSE 

ASHES ARE BURIED HERE
AMERICA
ELIZABETH CURTIS
LUCY HEYDORN
EDWIN VINCENT NEMEC
AUSTRALIA
ELIZABETH MARY BERRY
IVY FOSSEY
SUZANNE MARY HOUBERT
--- BRUCE OLDING
BRITAIN
MARGARET FAIRSTOW
ROGER BEDDING
JANET JOHNSON CAMPBELL
MARY IRENE CAMPBELL

York Cemetery, Pritviraj Road, New Delhi

SAMUEL HERBERT CAMPBELL
MARY MCGREGOR DUNN
NELLIE HORTON
GEORGE EDMOND IBBITSON
JOHN LAIRD
JEANIE LAIRD
BASIL ------
-----------
BRIDGET MARY WEBBER
ELLEN WILSON

(Pic: Brian Fernandez)

Lady Joan Legge 1885--1939 -- Valley of Flowers

     IN LOVING MEMORY

                    OF

  JOAN MARGARET LEGGE

        FEB 21ST 1885

       JULY 4TH 1939

                    *

"I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES

      UNTO THE HILLS

   FROM WHENCE COMETH

             MY HELP"

                    **

The broken original stone
was replaced by Infinity Outdoor

    Explorers, Pune

Thanks to Brian Fernandez who visited the Valley
of  Flowers in 2017 and Susan Penn-Berkeley Brooks 
who would have spent considerable time searching
British newspaper archives for coverage of
the tragic death of Lady Joan. 

     

                   ***

It is said that a year after Joan's death her

sister had the memorial built at the spot where

she had been buried. The original stone has been

placed on top when the grave was repaired.

FUNERAL OF LADY JOAN LEGGE 

------------

IN “VALLEY OF FLOWERS”

----------------

TRAGIC BOTANICAL EXPEDITION

------------

Lady Joan Legge, daughter of the sixth Earl of Dartmouth and sister of the present Earl, who died on Tuesday as the result of an accident, has been buried in the “Valley of Flowers,”  16 miles* from Badrinath, India.

It was there that the accident occurred, Lady Joan falling from a hillside while she was pickinig flowers.

She was collecting specimens for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew at the time. – Reuter.

LOSS TO COUNTRY

As already reported in the Sentinel, Lady Joan Legge, who was 54, had been on holiday in India for some months.

For the greater part of her life, Lady Joan had resided in Staffordshire, and had contributed much to the maintenance of her family's traditional interest and activity in social welfare. She gave her practical support to varied organisations in the country to this end, prominent among them being the Boys Scout movement.Scout movement she had held with distinction the office of Acting County Commissioner and Honorary County Secretary.

Lady Joan had given her time and energy to many other forms of social and philanthropic work, and was keenly interested in agriculture. (*Today know to be more like 28 miles)

The Birmingham Mail, Saturday July 15, 1939

The tragic end of Lady Joan Legge in India while on holiday, has caused great regret throughout Staffordshire because of its circumstances no less than the fact.

Lady Joan was proceeded to the Himalayas with native guides on a six months' holiday** after a rather severe illness last Christmas, and, though full details are not yet forthcoming, it appears that she was killed as the result of a fall from a hillside near Badrinath, in the Bhyundar Valley...

The district where Lady Joan was a scout, a scout master, and had acted as district commissioner; and the late Lord Dartmouth was a girl guide. When Lady Baden Powell, wife of Lt. Gen Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting and Girl Guides movement, was on a visit for a guide rally some years ago, Lord Dartmouth asked if he could not be enrolled, and he was then and there admitted.
Evening Chronicle, Newcastle Friday July 7, 1939
TRAGEDY OF DURHAM POOR'S "LADY BOUNTIFUL" -- Death After Accident In India
THE POOR of Durham City have lost a real "Lady Bountiful" by the death, as a result of an accident in the Bhyundur Valley, India, of Lady Joan Margaret Legge, youngest daughter of the sixth Earl of Dartmouth and a sister of the present peer.
Despite her frail constitution she went to Durham and gave practical help and sympathetic interest to poor families in St. Nicholas's parish.
She was forced by ill-health to give up the work and took her first holiday in 10 years, going to India against the advice of some of her friends.
As plain "Joan Legge" she wrote offering her help to the Vicar of St. Nicholas's (the Rev. F. H. Pickering) of whose work among the poor and unemployed she had read. It was not until later that Mr. Pickering learned that she was a peer's daughter.
 VICAR'S TRIBUTE
The Vicar of St. Nicholas's was distressed when an "Evening Chronicle" representative told him of Lady Joan's death.
"The news is almost incredible," he said, "Besides being one of England's greatest ladies, she was a magnificent Christian, seeking always to help and not to be helped. She had an understanding, kindly disposition and that quality of patience towards others that would never abandon hope for them and a generosity that was prodigious. The poor of St. Nicholas's parish have lost one of their greatest friends.
Lady Joan nursed her sick father for two or three years. As a result she herself had a serious illness, and while convalescing in the South of England she read of the work of the Vicar of St. Nicholas's.
BECAME ILL IN DURHAM
At Easter, last year, she came to Durham and immediately won the affection of all Mr. Pickering's parishioners, but after working for two months, she became ill with pneumonia.
She came back again after three months' rest, but the Vicar then saw she was not strong enough to stand the strain of her work and the rigours of climate, and told her to.
Lady Joan then went for an Indian holiday.
She was born in 1885 and was a Staffordshire magistrate. Her home was at Coven Heath, Wolverhampton

*Another newspaper report mentioned that Lady Joan has spent some months in India, recouperating from her illness before proceeding to the Valley of Flowers. It is known today that the Valley only opens towards the end of June. The Valley of Flowers was discovered by Frank Sydney Smythe (1900--1949, an English mountaineer,
author, photographer and botanist in 1931 while on an expedition and written about in a novel of the same name. The name has remained and is a popular destination for trekkers.)

The original stone that is placed on top

Brian Fernandez, a friend of mine,
 is a retired English
teacher who lives in Devlali,
Maharashtra 

Mrs Ethel Vance

MRS ETHEL VANCE

Harrison Samuel Loyall died 1972

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
HARRISON SAMUEL LOYALL
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
AGNES LOYALL
DIED ON DECEMBER 8, 1972

Gladys D'Ravara

GLADYS D'RAVARA