Scope and Contents 162 x 90 mm. A formal group portrait of the officials present at the 1932 durbar held at Sri Menanti, palace of the Yang di-Petuan Besar at Seremban. The figures in the group are: [?] Al-Mutasim Billah al-Sultan ABDULLAH (d 1932); Sultan of Pahang circa 1918-1932. Brysons caption identified this figure as Sultan Ahmad, but this is surely incorrect: Sultan Ahmad (circa 1881-1938) had ruled Pahang since 1865. On his death in 1914 his son Mahmad succeeded him and he in turn was succeeded...

Scope and Contents 142 x 93 mm. Showing Sir Andrew Caldecott inspecting a guard of honour at Sri Menanti on the occasion of the conferring of the G.C.M.G. on Tuanku Muhammad, the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negri [i.e. Negeri] Sembilan. The caption on the reverse of the print refers to Caldecott as O.A.G. (Officer Administering the Government) but he does not appear to have undertaken this function until 1934. British Malaya (Sept., 1933, p. 99) in an obituary of Tuanku Muhammad states that the G.C.M.G. (Knight...

Scope and Contents 140 x 82 mm. Showing a group in military uniform posed informally in the Lake Gardens. The figures are identified on the reverse of the print as: Albert Wolfgang JUST (1869-); Junior Officer, Perak 1892; appointed Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur 1917; William Arthur WHITE (1874-); G.P.O. Singapore 1903; Senior Assistant Auditor, External Audit 1917; Edgar Maurice BAKER (1870-); Secretariat, Singapore 1889; Assistant Treasurer, F.M.S. 1907; (Sir) Andrew CALDECOTT (1884-1951); Malay Civil Service...

Scope and Contents 197 x 149 mm. Similar to the preceding print, but taken from a slightly different angle and at a different stage in the proceedings. In this photograph a minor district Chief can be seen making obeisance to the Yang di-Pertuan Besar. Other identified figures in the print are: Tuanku Besar BURHANNUDIN; uncle of Tuanku Abdul Rahman and head of the royal household; (Sir) George Ernest LONDON (1889-1957); Malayan Civil Service 1911-1935; Under Secretary to Government, F.M.S. (Federated Malay...

Scope and Contents 216 x 144 mm. The photograph is a group portrait of the members of the Ceylon War Council. The only figures identified are the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott (fourth from the left in the front row) and Brigadier Sir Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron of the Malayan Civil Service. McKerron was seconded as Political Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon during the Second World War. The National Archives in Colombo, Sir Lanka, holds another copy of this image. The...