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In 1941, William returned to military service as a chaplain in the Indian Army, being posted to Iraq and Syria with the 10th Indian Division. William Garrod - India Office Private Papers Mss Eur F730

They spent the next ten years raising a family, while William worked in various parishes across northern India.Īrmy identity card for William Garrod - India Office Private Papers Mss Eur F730 In 1930, they travelled to India on William’s appointment as a Chaplain in the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment. The collection contains a lovely group of correspondence between them from this period, which was featured in an earlier Untold Lives blog. They got engaged in August 1926, and were married two years later in July 1928. On returning to England, he studied history and theology at Queens College, Oxford, where he met Isobel who worked in the Bursary at the College. He served in France with the Worcestershire Regiment from 1915 until 1918, and in India and the Middle East with a Punjab Regiment until 1922. The Garrod Family in 1933- India Office Private Papers Mss Eur F730 The collection gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of a British family living and working in India at the end of the British Raj. The Garrod Papers consist of the family archives of William Francis Garrod, a Chaplain in the Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment from 1930 until 1947, his wife Isobel and their four children.

A recent addition to the collections of India Office Private Papers has been fully catalogued and is now available to researchers.

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