{"id":92039,"date":"2022-05-15T17:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=92039"},"modified":"2022-05-16T04:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T04:25:44","slug":"the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind-across-the-oceans-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind-across-the-oceans-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joseph Family of British Ceylon: Service to Mankind across the Oceans-by  Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">The Joseph Family of British Ceylon: Service to Mankind across the Oceans-<span style=\"color: #800080;\">by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/09\/30\/the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind-across-the-oceans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88737 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michael-Roberts-eLanka.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Roberts\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Joe Simpson. reproducing his article in http:\/\/www.worldgenweb.org\/lkawgw\/sid.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This dashing military-style portrait is of Sidney Percival Joseph (1873- 934) who was one of 15 children of Arthur Francis Joseph\u2019s younger brother Eugene (1839-1915) and his wife, Georgiana Jemima (nee Ohlmus) (1848-1906). Sidney would thus have been a nephew of Arthur Francis Joseph (\u201cAFJ\u201d) and Eugenia, and a first cousin of Lawrence Joseph and his brothers. As the two cousins were almost exactly the same age, Sidney and Lawrence were probably childhood friends and remained so after Lawrence Joseph (later Joseph Lawrence) moved permanently to Scotland in the early 1890s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92040 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joe-joe.jpg\" alt=\"joe-joe\" width=\"358\" height=\"539\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This photograph has been\u00a0with the Canadian branch of the Lawrence family for several generations \u2013 Hugh Lawrence\u2019s brother Brian, who lives in Kelowna, south-central British Columbia, Canada, recently unearthed it in his collection. Still visible in dark blue ink against\u00a0the dark brown backing to this photograph are the neatly handwritten words:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201c<em>With\u00a0Love\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Siddie<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 London<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9th August 1902<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coronation Day\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>For years no-one in the Lawrence family in Canada or Scotland knew for certain who \u201cSiddie\u201d was.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">An obituary published in the\u00a0<strong>JDBU\u00a0of 1934<\/strong>\u00a0describes\u00a0<strong>Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0L.R.C.P. &amp; S. (Edinburgh) and L.F.P. &amp; S. (Glasgow) as \u201cso useful a citizen, so excellent a man\u201d.\u00a0<strong>When he retired from Government service to settle down in Colombo, he had served 27 continuous years in Ceylon\u2019s scattered outstations as a Medical Officer \/ Provincial Surgeon working for the Medical department.\u00a0<\/strong>According to\u00a0<em>Who\u2019s Who of Ceylon 1918-20\u00a0<\/em>his postings included Maskeliya and Trincomalee, and he was promoted to Grade 1 in May 1918, at which time he was living in Balapitiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Note the uniform that the young Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph (\u201cSiddie\u201d) is wearing in this photo. He joined the volunteer militia body known as the\u00a0<strong>Ceylon Light Infantry<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>CLI<\/strong>) in 1890, at age 17, and was posted to Bearer Company as a Private.\u00a0<strong>His presence (aged 29) in London in 1902 was due to his being a member of the CLI contingent that attended the coronation of King Edward VII that year.<\/strong>\u00a0At the time, Sidney was a L.\/Sgt. in the CLI. In 1911 he went on to be a member of the\u00a0<strong>Ceylon Volunteer Medical Corps<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>CMC<\/strong>) when it became a separate unit. He was commissioned as a Lt. in the CMC in 1920, and on October 2, 1925 received the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers\u2019 Medal when he was a Lt. in the CMC. (This allowed him to put the initials \u201cV.D.\u201d after his name, short for Voluntary Decoration, the medal awarded to commissioned officers in the Colonial Auxiliary Forces). He was a Captain-Major in the CMC between 1927-33, at which date he was posted to Reserve (aged 60) before passing away the next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>A much later photograph shown below, the original of which is in the possession of Shelagh Gunawardene, shows Dr. Sidney Joseph wearing three medals:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">the Coronation Medal 1902 (which appears also in the 1902 photograph)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal awarded on September 23, 1910 when he was still a non-commissioned L. \/ Sgt. with the CLI<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers Decoration awarded on October 2, 1925 when he was a Lt. in the CMC (giving him the \u201cV.D.\u201d designation)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Shelagh Goonewardene is one of the grand-daughters of Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph; her mother is the little girl, born in 1906 and named Georgiana, perched on the small table in the 1909 Joseph family portrait included below. (Three other children followed: Sidney Eugene Edward Ohlmus (called Eddie), born 1910, who died in Australia; Louis William Abraham Ohlmus, born 1912, who died in Colombo in the 1950s; and Victor Christian de Meuron Ohlmus (called Vickie), born 1916, who died in Australia in 1971). Shelagh\u2019s father was Lt. Col. T. R. Jansen, OBE, ED (also of the CMC, and one-time Commander of the volunteer corps).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Shelagh and her family now live in Australia. Her sister, Suzette, also emigrated from Sri Lanka to Australia. According to Shelagh, the family once had a large photograph portrait of Sidney in uniform and sporting a military-style moustache, along with a companion portrait of his wife, known to the family as Noble, both probably taken around the time of their engagement a few years after the 1902 photograph was taken in London. Sadly these two photographs both vanished in mysterious, indeed tragic, circumstances. As Shelagh tells it, before emigrating in 1988 Suzette had entrusted them to the care of the Dutch (Burgher) Museum in Colombo, for exhibition purposes. Shelagh and Suzette suspect that they may have fallen victim to the civil war in Sri Lanka, in that \u2013 tragically \u2013 their custodian, the lady librarian at the Museum, was killed in 1996 when a terrorist bomb exploded at the Central Bank in Colombo where she worked.\u00a0<strong>It takes little imagination to picture the joy that Shelagh, Suzette and their brother Roger must now feel at being able to see these portraits of both their beloved Joseph grandparents that have finally emerged into the light of day in the care of long-lost cousins in far-off Canada.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Sidney\u2019s much older relative,\u00a0<strong>Abraham Orlando Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0(son of\u00a0<strong>Gerardus Petrus<\/strong>, another of the sons of the founding patriarch,\u00a0<strong>Abraham Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0from Alsace-Lorraine) was a leading proctor, freemason and among the first complement of officers of the \u201c<em>Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers\u201d<\/em>. \u201cAOJ\u201d was the father of\u00a0<strong>Ernest Henley Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0(b. 1868) another outstanding cricketer, who rose to high position as a Lt.-Col in the\u00a0<strong>Ceylon Garrison Artillery<\/strong>\u00a0(CGA) and thus also held the V.D. designation. \u201cEHJ\u201d was in turn the father of Lt. Col.\u00a0<strong>Ernest Mervyn Corbet Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0(b.1890) also of the\u00a0<em>CGA\u00a0<\/em>who\u00a0was\u00a0commander of the Galle Face Battery and Chief Recruiting Officer, Ceylon\u00a0during WW2. A peace-time proctor and later Colombo\u2019s senior magistrate, he is mentioned with credit in Noel Crusz\u2019 published (2000) account of the wartime\u00a0<em>Cocos Islands Mutiny<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>The JDBU obituary testifies to his three main interests at the time of his retirement: the Dutch Burgher Union<\/strong>\u00a0(of which he was Treasurer \u201cat a time of difficulty\u201d);\u00a0<strong>the Dutch Reformed Church\u00a0<\/strong>(of which he was a Deacon, Consistory\u00a0<em>Scriba<\/em>, Sunday School teacher and \u2013 latterly \u2013 Wolvendaal Church Sub-Warden);<em>\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<strong>Colts Cricket Club<\/strong>\u00a0in which Josephs had been active since its founding in 1873, the year of his birth. Obviously a methodical man, he spent his all-too-short retirement arranging and indexing the Wolvendaal old registers and archives. Kind-hearted to a marked degree, he worked among the poor \u2013 \u201cwho were especially dear to him and who will miss him sorely\u201d \u2013 paying pensioners their grants, visiting them in their homes, and above all taking a personal interest in them. \u201cIn fact it was this personal touch that constituted his peculiar charm and caused him to be beloved by all.\u201d (Shades of his much older first cousin, Dr. Louis Joseph, a son of \u201cAFJ\u201d who died prematurely at a roughly similar age, in Newfoundland around 1900 after years of dedicated medical work in remote outstations such as the Shetland islands and northern Newfoundland).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>When Treasurer of the DBU, Dr. Sidney set about indexing particulars of births, deaths, baptisms and marriages from the old records<\/strong>, in order to prevent unnecessary delays in dealing with applications for admission into the Union. Most tellingly, the anonymous obituarist pays tribute to his having \u201cignored all the prejudices and divisions which are so destructive to the well-being of all communities in the Island\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dr. Sidney was elected a Colts Cricket Club member in March 1892, just after his 19th birthday. He remained an enthusiastic member for 42 years until his death.\u00a0<strong>A distinguished cricketer, he played in all the local test matches against European teams until 1900.<\/strong>\u00a0On his retirement and return to Colombo, he took up the Honorary Secretaryship of the Club at a time when its cricketing prominence was sliding. His keen interest in Club activities and enthusiasm with which he inspired the members, were greatly missed after his death. As mentioned above, Josephs had been active with the Club since its inception in 1873 as Ceylon\u2019s first-ever cricket club; Sidney\u2019s distant cousin\u00a0<strong>Ernest Henley Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0(b. 1868) \u2013 see above \u2013 had been a Colts team player since 1883 (when he was 15!) and had played in a Ceylonese eleven against a European eleven. \u201cEHJ\u201d\u00a0<em>inter alia<\/em>\u00a0went on to become a well-known tennis player and Vice-Chairman of the Colombo Association Football League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>On September 4, 1905 at Wolvendaal Dutch Reformed Church, Colombo, Dr Sidney Joseph married\u00a0Anne Noble Ohlmus\u00a0(1878-1949).<\/strong>\u00a0As mentioned earlier, they had four children born between 1906 and 1916, the youngest of whom, in honour of the Swiss regimental connection through old Great-Grandfather Abraham,\u00a0was resplendently named\u00a0<strong>Victor Christian de Meuron Ohlmus Joseph<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(Another Joseph family member with the de Meuron name is\u00a0<strong>Darian Egerton de Meuron Joseph<\/strong>, born Feb 21, 1944 in Colombo and a descendant of\u00a0<strong>Wilhelmus Arnoldus Joseph<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1813), another son of the founder of the Ceylon Joseph clan who has been in touch with me by e-mail recently. Darian Joseph of Sri Lanka and his distant cousin Hugh Lawrence of Canada (born April 3, 1944) are therefore almost exact contemporaries, having been born only\u00a05 or 6\u00a0weeks apart. Hopefully one day they will meet, perhaps when Hugh and Fiona take that retirement trip to Sri Lanka in a couple of years\u2019 time)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">To round off our look at the dashing\u00a0<strong>Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph<\/strong>, below is\u00a0a family group photograph dated 1909 that has come down to Hugh Lawrence through his father and grandfather, Lawrence Joseph who became Joseph Lawrence. On the back is handwritten:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201c<em>With love from Cousins at Lothringen, Maskeliya, 15\/9\/09<\/em>\u201c.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Comparing the features of the man in both the 1902 and the 1909 photographs, bearing in mind the close connection and age similarity between Sidney and his first cousin Lawrence, remembering that Sidney once served at Maskeliya as a government medical officer \u2013 presumably dealing much with the Tamil plantation workers of that hill country station, surely a congenial role for one so clearly devoted to the welfare of the poor and disenfranchised \u2013 and recalling from his obituary that Dr. Sidney was a keen\u00a0student of Burgher family history, hence the naming of his home after the part of 18th century Franco-German Europe that his great-grandfather Abraham had sprung from\u2026even before making contact with Shelagh Goonewardene in late August 2001 it seemed safe to assume that this 1909 photograph was of Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph and his wife Anne Noble Joseph, and their first-born child,\u00a0<strong>Noble Georgiana Frances Ohlmus Joseph<\/strong>, born June 25, 1906, therefore aged 3 in the photograph.\u00a0<strong>Thanks to Shelagh, we now know this is definitely the case.<\/strong>\u00a0It will be most interesting to see what other information the now-reconnected branches of the Joseph\/Lawrence families in Australia and Canada will be able to exchange in the future. Sidney and Lawrence Joseph, childhood companion and close contemporaries, would have thoroughly approved!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45964 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-1.jpg?resize=500%2C730&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"730\" data-attachment-id=\"45964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/09\/30\/the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind-across-the-oceans\/joe-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-1.jpg?fit=500%2C730&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,730\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"joe 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-1.jpg?fit=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-1.jpg?fit=500%2C730&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u201cCousins\u201d at Maskeliya, Ceylon, 1909<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45965 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-2.jpg?resize=500%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" data-attachment-id=\"45965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/09\/30\/the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind-across-the-oceans\/joe-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-2.jpg?fit=500%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,230\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"joe 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-2.jpg?fit=300%2C138&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-2.jpg?fit=500%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-45966 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-3.jpg?resize=226%2C334&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"334\" data-attachment-id=\"45966\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2020\/09\/30\/the-joseph-family-of-british-ceylon-service-to-mankind-across-the-oceans\/joe-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-3.jpg?fit=500%2C739&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,739\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"joe 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-3.jpg?fit=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joe-3.jpg?fit=500%2C739&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/a>Dr. Sidney Percival Joseph in his later years\u2026. Note the three medals referred to above<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<em>Special thanks are due to Charles Ameresekera of Ontario, Canada for his valuable information about Dr. Sidney Joseph\u2019s medals and volunteer militia career, taken from his forthcoming book, and to Douglas Ranmuthugala of Canberra, Australia for his help and advice in tracking down more information about Sidney, and for referring our queries to Charles. Thanks to Sidney\u2019s grand-daughter, Shelagh Goonewardene, for the copy of the photograph of him in his later years, taken at her mother\u2019s wedding (the little girl in the \u201cMaskeliya\u201d photograph)!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joseph Family of British Ceylon: Service to Mankind across the Oceans-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Joe Simpson. reproducing his article in http:\/\/www.worldgenweb.org\/lkawgw\/sid.html This dashing military-style portrait is of Sidney Percival Joseph (1873- 934) who was one of 15 children of Arthur Francis Joseph\u2019s younger brother Eugene (1839-1915) and his wife, Georgiana Jemima (nee Ohlmus) (1848-1906). 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