Bengaluru: 8am on Wednesday and Geraldine Grace Ward was busy exploring her iPad in the living room of her city’s house, replying to an email that hoped she was on the 100th birthday on Sunday.
He has scheduled a zoom meeting with family members, who are happy for the Army veteran to turn Centenarian.
His simple house, Grace Villa in Kumaraswamy Naidu Road near Haji Sir Ismail Sait Mosque was in party mode and so did Geraldine.
Born, baptized and married here, Centenarian who will soon become Bengalurean, who served in the Indian Army British hold key positions in the inner circle close to women and Lord Mountbatten himself.
Geraldine Grace Ward enrolled in a female voluntary unit which began in 1942born on September 26, 1921 for the city pair Frazer Alfred and Elizabeth, he went to Clarence School before being sent to nilgiris for higher education.
“My father died when I was at school and we were pushed into poverty.
My mother took care of things with her work in local service until I returned to Bengaluru after school.
He continued to tell me to take a job in the post department so I can receive retirement which was stable when I was retired, “said Geraldine, remembering the teenage days in the 1930s.
World War II has broken and Geraldine who thinks sharply remembers the words of Anglo-India leader Frank Anthony calling all Anglo-India to join the British Army and serve the country.
“All men and women who are able to go to join the war efforts and I also end up in Quetta which is Pakistan today, for training as part of a woman’s auxiliary corps,” he said.
He enrolled in a female voluntary unit from the British Indian Army which began in 1992 to support the war by training women for the first time in the role of non-permedical.
Promoted to the post-war cadre officers, Geraldine joined the Sir Eric Coates team made the first cabinet secretary in India pre-independence.
“Officer Coates is part of the Viceroy Executive Board and Post Independence, he was replaced by HM Patel and I served as Secretary to them in Delhi,” he said.
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