Saw this photo on e-bay this morning.
Not the sort of picture I usually like to investigate. But the chappie in the middle looked so joyful and relaxed, with his pipe and plus-fours ... so while I devoured my morning tea, I looked ...
The back of the photo gives us a little information. A date: 1923-30. And names: Lieutenant Lister on the left, Lieutenant King on the right, and in the middle ... Lieutenant D'Arcy Symonds. Well, that's not going to be difficult!
And it wasn't. Herbert Frank Gordon D'Arcy Symonds, born Brighton 14 April 1899. Son of Jermyn D'Arcy Travers Symonds and his wife Beatrice Mary (née Ledsam) of Val Plaisant, St Helier, Jersey. Father, grandfather (Major General Jermyn Charles Symonds) all military men ...
Married 1929
Seems to have been in Burma between 1830-3 with the 1st batallion of the Buffs ... I would guess this may have been where this jolly photo was taken ...
A sad photo, too. Herbert was killed at Mersa Matruh, in Egypt 7 July 1936, when the airplane in which he was travelling, on exercises, crashed on landing ...
He left one child, Jennifer who became Mrs Fleming ...
Hester remarried (Mrs Eric G S Shefford) in 1940.
Anybody know about Messrs Lister and King ... ?
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