12th August 1933
Old Calabar and Old Caledonia : A Remarkable Group
This Group photograph was taken on August 12 at the Royal George Hotel, Perth. The occasion was a luncheon party at which the presentation of a silver salver to Dr Frank Ross (late of the West African Medical Service) and a silver card tray to Mrs Ross was made, the subscribers being a few Old Calaber friends. Dr Frank Ross, specialise ,Calabar, has just retired after 23 years services in Nigeria and leaves there a host of friends African and European, to whom his retirement is a severe loss.
He first went to Nigeria in 1910, and his first tour was spent in Lagos and on the northern extension of the Lagos Railway. His second tour was spent at Itu, with professor Leiper , on special work, and he was afterwards stationed at Afikpo, Benin City, Enugu, Bonny, Port Harcourt and Lagos, and latterly as specialist at Calabar.
Dr Ross was one of the noble and self-sacrificing band of medical men who fought the plague in Lagos , and becoming infected himself , nearly lost his life.
From August 1914, until June 1916, Dr Ross was with the expeditionary Force in the Cameroon.
Mrs Ross accompanied her husband on a number of his tours, and endeared herself to all who met her. She did valuable social work in Calabar in connection with the Ladies League, etc
The names of those on the photograph are : Left to right ,sitting: Mr D M Calder, U,A,C, Calabar: Mrs G Graham Paul, Dr Frank Ross , Mrs Ross Mrs D, M, Calder. Left to right, second row: Miss Nellie Calder, Mrs, J, M,Lenaham, wife of Mr, J M, Lenaham, manager ,U,A,C. Nadiam Estate Calaber : Miss Jenny Ross , Mrs G,M , Smart , Miss Jean steele, Mrs N, S, Fraser, Miss Renee Ross , Miss Mary Calder, Left to right , back row Mr John Ross, Mr W, S , Fraser, U,A,C, Calaber, Mr G , M Smart, U,A.C , Plantations Supervisor , Master Desmond Lenahan , Mr G ,Graham Paul , M,I, C, Calabar, In Front : Master John Calder
The silver Salver, with the signatures of the subscribers engraved thereon, was handed over to Dr Ross by Mr D, M, Calder, and Mrs G, Graham Paul presented the silver card tray to Mrs Ross.
Our correspondent adds: “The presence of Mr Graham Paul ensured the luncheon party’s being a happy one, and to my knowledge, it is the first time that as many people to intimately associated with the Old Calabar have gathered together in Scotland.
He first went to Nigeria in 1910, and his first tour was spent in Lagos and on the northern extension of the Lagos Railway. His second tour was spent at Itu, with professor Leiper , on special work, and he was afterwards stationed at Afikpo, Benin City, Enugu, Bonny, Port Harcourt and Lagos, and latterly as specialist at Calabar.
Dr Ross was one of the noble and self-sacrificing band of medical men who fought the plague in Lagos , and becoming infected himself , nearly lost his life.
From August 1914, until June 1916, Dr Ross was with the expeditionary Force in the Cameroon.
Mrs Ross accompanied her husband on a number of his tours, and endeared herself to all who met her. She did valuable social work in Calabar in connection with the Ladies League, etc
The names of those on the photograph are : Left to right ,sitting: Mr D M Calder, U,A,C, Calabar: Mrs G Graham Paul, Dr Frank Ross , Mrs Ross Mrs D, M, Calder. Left to right, second row: Miss Nellie Calder, Mrs, J, M,Lenaham, wife of Mr, J M, Lenaham, manager ,U,A,C. Nadiam Estate Calaber : Miss Jenny Ross , Mrs G,M , Smart , Miss Jean steele, Mrs N, S, Fraser, Miss Renee Ross , Miss Mary Calder, Left to right , back row Mr John Ross, Mr W, S , Fraser, U,A,C, Calaber, Mr G , M Smart, U,A.C , Plantations Supervisor , Master Desmond Lenahan , Mr G ,Graham Paul , M,I, C, Calabar, In Front : Master John Calder
The silver Salver, with the signatures of the subscribers engraved thereon, was handed over to Dr Ross by Mr D, M, Calder, and Mrs G, Graham Paul presented the silver card tray to Mrs Ross.
Our correspondent adds: “The presence of Mr Graham Paul ensured the luncheon party’s being a happy one, and to my knowledge, it is the first time that as many people to intimately associated with the Old Calabar have gathered together in Scotland.
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Pictures of the Silver Salver with the signatures of the subscribers engraved thereon.
Presented to Frank Ross 1933 A big Thank you to Iain Ross for the photographs |
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