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PeterG - Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 3:58:42 PM
Asst. Surgeon C J McKenna 43rd A.L.I.
Gauhati 1869-70 Dibrughar 1880
Adam - Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 9:38:47 AM
Charles was at Nowsari to repair flood damage to the telegraph installation. The structure to the right is a pylon to carry the line over the river.
Adam - Saturday, December 24, 2022 at 6:31:13 PM
Colonel Herbert Henderson James (1827-1914), later General H.H. James, was commander of the Deesa Brigade from 1882 to 1885. He is in the centre of the front row. His wife Gertrude (née Place) is at the left-hand end of the front row. Herbert Henderson was the son of General Charles Butler James EIC (1784-1870). His brothers Charles Mardon Wallace, Edmund Marcus Viret and Lionel Henry Septimus were all in the military in India. His son Charles Streatfeild James was in the Indian Telegraph Service from 1879 to 1914 and his son Eric Cardew Streatfeild-James was in the Royal Indian Navy from 1924 to 1947. Herbert Henderson took part in the Abyssinia Expedition of 1867-8 and the 2nd Afghan War of 1879-81, with the 10th Bombay Native Infantry. See also Photo 1 in the Morgan Collection, 10th Bombay Light Infantry Poona Sept 1867.
Adam - Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 3:54:21 PM
This photograph is included (without a handwritten caption) in the album of Charles Streatfeild-James
Adam - Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 3:53:17 PM
Adam - Friday 14 October 2022 12:50
Colonel Herbert Henderson James (1827-1914), later General H.H. James, was commander of the Deesa Brigade from 1882 to 1885. He is in the centre of the front row. His wife Gertrude (née Place) is at the left-hand end of the front row. Herbert Henderson was the son of General Charles Butler James EIC (1784-1870). His brothers Charles Mardon Wallace, Edmund Marcus Viret and Lionel Henry Septimus were all in the military in India. His son Charles Streatfeild James was in the Indian Telegraph Service from 1879 to 1914 and his son Eric Cardew Streatfeild-James was in the Royal Indian Navy from 1924 to 1947. Herbert Henderson took part in the Abyssinia Expedition of 1867-8 and the 2nd Afghan War of 1879-81, with the 10th Bombay Native Infantry. See also Photo 1 in the Morgan Collection, 10th Bombay Light Infantry Poona Sept 1867.
Adam - Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 4:51:46 PM
Royal Alfred Sailors\' Home, Bombay. The building was named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert\'s second son and Duke of Edinburgh, who had visited Bombay in 1870, and its original purpose was to provide accommodation for up to 350 men, both officers and seamen. Designed by Frederick William Stevens (1847-1900), and built 1872-76 on the junction between Colaba Causeway and Frere Road at Apollo Bunder, Mumbai. It is now the State Police Headquarters for Maharashtra.
Adam - Friday, October 14, 2022 at 3:25:59 PM
This photograph was taken at Ratlam Palace (the Ranjit Vlias Palace, Ratlam), which still stands today but is much dilapidated. The Indian Prince in the front row is H.H. Raja Shrimant Sir Ranjit Singhji Sahib Bahadur (1864-1893) who acceded to the title of Maharajah of Ratlam on the 27th January 1884. This may be a picture of that event. The officer on the left hand end of the back row, standing, is Colonel Herbert Henderson James, at this point commander of the Deesa Brigade. His wife Gertrude (née Place) seated in the front row to the right of the Maharajah.
Adam - Friday, October 14, 2022 at 3:17:23 PM
This photo exists in the John Morgan collection too, where it has the title "Herbert's Bungalow, Mhow 1886". Charles Streatfeild-James's youngest brother was named Herbert Lionel James and he was in India in 1886, in the Manchester Regiment. However, neither brother is immediatlely recognisable from this picture.
Adam - Friday, October 14, 2022 at 3:14:40 PM
There are no names supplied in Charles' album for this photograph but I am fairly sure it shows the extended Mackenzie family of Calcutta. Charles is on the extreme left (wearing a cricket cap) and his first wife Elizabeth Ellen Mackenzie is in the centre with their first child Ralph on her knee. Ralph Streatfeild-James joined the East Surrey Regiment in 1910 and died of wounds received in the battle for Morval on the Somme in October 1916. I believe that the father of the family, Nicholas William Mackenzie, is the gentleman in the while suit. He was a senior executive of the Bank of Bengal. The photo must date from about 1892, since Ralph was born in 1890 and Charles was on furlough in England by 1893.
Adam - Friday, October 14, 2022 at 3:09:05 PM
Charles Streatfeild-James worked on the west coast railway line between 1882 and 1885, between Bombay and Ahmedabad. Surat was conveniently about half-way up the line and he based himself there when possible.