Acheson, Violet Katharine Harriet

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Cemetery: Madras War Cemetery, Chennai

Country: India

Area: Madras

Rank: Staff Serjeant

Force: Army

Official Number: W/6971

Unit: Women's Auxiliary Corps (India)

Country of Service: Indian

Details: 17/03/45 Aged 21 5. D. 8. Daughter of Sir James Glasgow Acheson, C.I.E., I.C.S., and of Lady Acheson (nee Field), of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Kitty accompanying her father the future Sir James Acheson at a Civilian War Effort Show at Peshawar in 1942. Kitty's father was at the time Adviser to the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province (Sir George Cunningham). Of this picture Sir James later wrote: The object in this photo is an aircraft bomb, the handiwork and gift of an outlaw working in the notorious rifle factories in the Independent Territory of the Kohat Pass, near Peshawar. For a previous exhibition of Indian crafts in London before the war these factories produced perfect replicas of (a) a Service rifle and (b) a Singer sewing machine!

Photograph by David Milborrow / Malcolm Acheson

Madras War Cemetery, Chennai - Acheson, Violet Katharine Harriet

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