April 1909 - Goodbye to his servant
at Benares Station (now Varanasi)
April 1909 - Benares Ghats,
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
April 1909 - Bombay Ghats
April 1909 - Homeward bound on 6 months
leave - United Services Club, Bombay
April 1909 -
Bombay from the Taj
April 1909 - The last of Bombay
from the SS Marea
28 April 1909 - Approaching Aden. “Behold a crowd upon
the beam; and humped above the sea appears old Aden,
like a barrack stove that no one’s lit for years and years”
It’s a quote from Kipling’s “For to Admire”
2 May 1909 - SS Australia at Suez.
Transhipped to SS Isis
May 1909 - Suez from the Canal
May 1909 - Approaching Brindisi, Italy
5 May 1909 - Disembarking SS Isis at Brindisi
May 1909 - Nearing the Mont Cenis tunnel, later known as the Frejus
Tunnel, Bardonecchia,
Piedmont, Italy
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Peebles, Scottish Borders
October 1909 - Embarking on his return to India from
Marseille
October 1909 - SS Mantua at Port Said
October 1909 - A cricket match between the Ship and
Port Said. “Watched the match from a comfortable stand”
October 1909 - The Osiris arriving
with the mail
October 1909 - Shipping passengers (including Mrs Herbert) at Port
Said
October 1909 - THe Suez Canal
October 1909 - Lying at Aden
October 1909 - WB Heycock and WHB
October 1909 -
Richardson and Heycock
October 1909 - possibly railway crossing on the
Jhalda to Chatra Nagpur Railway (photo damaged)
October, 1909 - Three staff members
October 1909 - The return of the Collector from leave
- Heycock on left and Whitty on right at Bindivan
(Now known as Vrindavan)
October 1909 - Managing Committee of the first
Union in India at Khelanpur and Balarampur
November 1909 - Parassala, Kerala
November 1909 - Irrigation ditch
at Gaya, Bihar
November 1909 - Parassala, Kerala
November 1909 - Miss BLack at the Collector’s
Bungalow, Gaya, Bihar
(WHB met her on the boat
-they had friends in common)
November
November 1909 - On a jungle
Rajah’s elephant
November 1909 - The usual method of paddling a
stream
17 November 1909 -
The wedding of RW Reid and Miss Disney at Muzaffarpur. Known as Bobby Reid and
from Brasenose College. WHB was Best Man on the right of the photo.
“He is a very lucky man and I think he deserves his luck for he is a good fellow, He has
got of the pretties and sweetest women I have met for a long time. I’ll send you a
photograph of the show”
6 December 1909 - Durham Waite at the Circuit House, Ranchi,
Jharkhand.
“Travelled to Ranchi with old Col. Swaine.
7 Dec Up at 06.15. Inspected 6 Ranchi bank branches till breakfast”.
December 1909 - The River Damodar from
the Ramgarh Inspection bungalow
December 1909 - Finch White and Dr Macken on the church steps.
“Finch White ran some of thebanks very badly and causewd WHB a
lot of trouble, He may have been a missionary”
December 1909 - from the road near Ranchi Ghats, Ramgarh
Hunting from an elephant
December 1909 - Church at Chitarpur, Sewai
December 1909 - An example of the cooperative banks,
Chitarpur, Ramgarh
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