{"id":2774,"date":"2013-08-18T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T15:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2013-08-18T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T15:15:37","slug":"chilubi-incident-northern-rhodesia-march-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/18\/chilubi-incident-northern-rhodesia-march-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilubi incident, Northern Rhodesia \u2013 March 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Dear Fr Udelhoven,<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Two years ago (almost to the day!) you put me in touch with Fr Richard at the archives of the White Fathers in Rome. I was researching an incident that occurred on Chilubi Island in March 1959.\u00a0\u00a0Fr Richards was able to send me several documents which were exactly what\u00a0I needed to enable me to progress, and now finish my researches on\u00a0this event.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>I have sent a copy of my text to Fr Richard, and I now enclose a copy for you since you are the &#8220;man on the spot&#8221;, so to speak!<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Perhaps it may find a place in your archives.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>With best wishes,<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Yours sincerely, Neil Morris<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>With the permission of the author: <a title=\"Chilubi incident\" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/chilubi-incident-march-1959.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL TEXT <\/a><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i><a title=\"George Medal \" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/war_medal_modific3a9-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2777 alignleft\" alt=\"War_Medal_modifi\u00e9-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/war_medal_modific3a9-1.png?resize=126%2C218\" width=\"126\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/war_medal_modific3a9-1.png?w=210&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/war_medal_modific3a9-1.png?resize=173%2C300&amp;ssl=1 173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Note: following the incident of Chilubi Island, o<\/i><i>n the 4<sup>th<\/sup> December 1959, Her Majesty the Queen had been graciously pleased to approve the award of the George Medal to the Rev. Father Augustin Boumier of the Santa Maria Mission, Chilubi Island.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">No<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color:#000000;\">te 2: Father Augustin Boumier died at Chilubula in Zambia on the 4th December 1970 at the age of 63. He was from Angers, France.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Fr Udelhoven, Two years ago (almost to the day!) you put me in touch with Fr Richard at the archives of the White Fathers in Rome. I was researching an incident that occurred on Chilubi Island in March 1959.\u00a0\u00a0Fr Richards was able to send me several documents which were exactly what\u00a0I needed to enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[161,319,610],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-augustin-boumier","tag-chilubi-island","tag-george-medal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}