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I (Mrs) Katie Evans am a day of pure European
I was born and educated in Eng- parentage, and my age is 37. land. My father Colonel Allen Mears late Commandant of the East India Railway Volunteers and Hon. A.D.C. to His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, died on the 17th February, 1910, and his estate, when he died, was I understand valued at about Rs.20,000, this money he left entirely to his son who has managed to get through it all, and is now out of
I have two employment. My mother is dead, she died in 1896. relations in India, a brother and a sister, and neither are in a position to help me. My son Allen aged 13 is at the hill school at Darjeeling (India). I was compelled to send him there
a To couldnot afford to send him to England to be educated. His education fees clothing and extras amount to Rs.65/- a month, and I was only able to meet this from the small amount SỐ TÀ my husband remitted to me periodically, sometimes Rs.60 times Rs.70/- a month. Healways told me he couldnot afford more as he had incurred heavy debts, having for some time been out of a billet. Owing to absolute poverty and stress of circum- stances, and receiving no help from my relations, beyond the remittances from my husband to meet the clothing and education of my boy, I have been compelled to join this Hospital as a nurse, and had it not been for the small balance of Rs.12/- a month salary, I should not have been able to meet expenses for
my clothing.
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Katie Evans