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Lt.-Col. Frank O’Neill Ford, O.B.E., Burma Rifles
and 
Annabel Elsie Couper Ford
Mingaladone, Maymyo and Taunggyi
Mingaladone 1938  

Middle Row L-R:- x, Chauhpa Gam, Fred Smith, Mithoi Naw, Darley-Tucker, Frank Ford, Tommy Tucker, Watson, Appleby, S. Ryan
Front Row L-R:- Grace Tucker, x, Hope Tucker, R.C. Fletcher, x, Derry Taylor, x, Annabel Ford, x.
One other name is mentioned on the reverse of the photo, Dudley Lincoln. 
L-R:- Blackwell, x McLeod, Ford, x, x, Ashmore, x, x, x, x,
Annabel Ford is on the right, two others are named as Mr & Mrs Polton. 
Taken at Sumprabum.
Fancy dress cricket, Maymyo, 1931
Apart from Frank and Annabel, the only other name mentioned is Winston Fennell
Jill's 7th birthday party, ​Taunggyi, 1941. 
Back Row L-R:- Annis Donnison, Helen Young or Ruth Pritchard, X, X, 
Mid. Row L-R:- Tony Butler or Philip Chartaurd, John Nicholson, Jill Ford, X, Boogee Eccles, Lilla Chartaurd 
1st Row L-R:-  X,X,X,X, Peter Ford, X,X,  
Front Row R-L:- X, X, Peter Ford
Taunggyi, 1941 ​
Standing Left - right  
​John Nicholson, X, Tony Butler or Philip Chartaurd

Seated Left - right 
​X, Peter Ford, X, X
​Others who Jill remembers from Taunggyi:-
Lilla and Philip Chartuard  ;  John Nicholson  ;  John and Michael? Kingston  ;  Fay Bowerman  ;  Ruth and Rosemary Pitchford  ;  Maralyn (Turner) Crow (Jill's best friend at the time)  ;  Theresa Hkio  ;  Boojee (nickname?) Eccles  ;  Tony Butler  ;  John Farmer  ;  Helen Young  ;  Pamela Van Millegen or van Millingen  ;  David Ruffell  ;  xxx Maxwell
Jill, the boy on her right is John Bostock
Maymyo 1937
Jill with John Bostock on her right, Maymyo, 1937
Maymyo 1937
Others who Jill remembers from Maymyo:-
Marian and Edward Sayers  ;   John and Susan Bostock  ;  Colin Auguin  ;  Sally Taylor  ;  Martin Sullivan  ;  Anne Grigson, R.I.P.  ;  John & Gillian Turner

and from Mingaladone:-  xxx Donnison
Maymyo, 1937,
​one of the adults here could be Agnes (Adgie) Anderson
1937 Maymyo, Jill's 3rd birthday party, she is seated beside the black n white minstral.  The lady on the far right is the nanny of John Bostock who is the little boy in white with the chef's hat, the girl with her hand on his shoulder is his sister Susan
PictureSally and Jill
Nurse “Wadie” otherwise known as Sally Wade Wade (there is a reason for the extra Wade.)  Annabel Ford credited Sally with saving the life of her daughter Jill, who was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.  Sally shocked the infant Jill into life by dipping her alternately into hot (ish) and then cold water.
Young Jill at "Franconia," Maymyo
     Jill with her father Frank at Maymyo swimming pool, 1936/37
After their evacuation, 1942.  
At the back:- Jill Ford
On the step:-  xx Maxwell, Peter Ford,
Gillian Turner, Susan Ford, xx Turner
After evacuation 1942. L-R Top step:- Gillian Turner, Phyllis Lattimer and Molly (or Maisy) Turner.
L-R 3rd step:-  Peter and Jill Ford.
L-R 2nd Step:-  Susan Ford and John Turner
1st Step:-  xx Maxwell
Four of the Ford children were born at Maymyo Military Hospital:
Jill Annabel, 1934
Peter O'Neill, 1937
Susan Sheilagh, 1940
Sally Ann, 1941
Simon Patrick was born in 1942 at Dehra Dun.
Lt.-Col. Frank O'Neill Ford, c 1945, and Sabaw Tu receiving the Burma Gallantry Medal.  
L-R  Finglas, Murray Woods,
 X, X, X,  Richard (Dick) Sayers Frank Ford, Willis, xxkman
L-R:  xxxman, X, X, Murray Woods,  X, Richard (Dick) Sayers, X, X.
Background:- Bertie Ruffel, X, X , Darley Tucker, Frank Ford, Woods.
Foreground:- P.C. Tudor-Craig (T.C.),  Sammy Young?
During the evacuation personal items had to be kept to the bare minimum, the following four photos are the remainder of the Ford's collection.
   Maymyo
In the Triangle c 1933, 
Annabel Ford and friends
Major Frank Ford, 1892-1980, born in London and Annabel Elsie Ford, nee Couper, 1906-2004, born in Edinburgh, both died in Berwick, Victoria, Australia.

Phyllis Lattimer, 1912-1987, died in Neston, Cheshire, married to Alastair MacIntyre, 1949, they had no children but Phyllis regarded the Ford children as her proxy family, when Jill was in the U.K. she would spend every Christmas with her and was by her side when she died.  Read the Evacuation Memoirs of Phyllis on the ABL website.
The Burma Rifles and Burma Frontier Force - The Burma Indigenous Forces
This last selection of photos are from their annual luncheon with lists of those attending in 1963, 1964 and 1974.   Index
1964 (a)
1964 (b)
Seating arrangements 
1964
Seating arrangements 1963
Seating arrangements 1974