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Green Sandals [1926. A novel, Burma]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Michigan https://books.google.com/books?id=SbkqAAAAMAAJ Cecil Champain Lowis wrote more than a dozen novels during the period 1899-1936, most of which were set, or at least partially set, in Burma. Cecil Champain Lowis was born in Bengal 30 June 1866 and educated at Newton College, Devon, at Göttingen Gymnasium, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He married in 1894 and died in 1948. He was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1885 (after examinations, as had been the situation since 1856) and was appointed to a district in Burma in 1888. He served in Burma as magistrate and travelling judge. He also conducted the Census of India, in Burma, and was lent to the Egyptian government in order to conduct the Census of Egypt in 1907. He then returned as Superintendent of Ethnography, Burma, until he retired in 1912. (Details from https://www.manfamily.org/about/other-families/lowis-family/ ) During the 1914-1918 war he served in France from 1917 in the Labour Corps, and was until May 1918, in command of a Labour Company as acting Captain. He was promoted to temporary Lieutenant, Indian Labour Corps, 30 January 1

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