Disembarking from the SS Bendigo in Colombo on April 4, 1936, the twenty-four-year-old Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle became the exception proving the rule posited by the contemporary British writer P.M. Smythe, about those who ventured out to the colonies. “Europeans,” Smythe wrote, were “encouraged to assume that the meanest white man, the private soldier or […]
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