Sentence examples for colonial service from inspiring English sources

He retired from the colonial service in 1910.

After he resigned from the colonial service, Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912.

Duke's father, Eric Hussey, an Olympic hurdler, was in the colonial service.

You might enter the back door of the BBC through the colonial service.

African Roots Clinton Richard Dawkins was born in Kenya, where his father was an agricultural specialist with the colonial service.

Having joined the colonial service in 1914, he served in the Nigeria Regiment during World War I.

Other successful uses were by the Dutch colonial services in Celebes and by Russia in a number of engagements in the Turkistan War.

His father was posted to Hong Kong with the colonial civil service when the boy was seven, and went on to Kenya before returning to Hong Kong.

In 1892 he joined the colonial health service and was sent to Hong Kong in 1894, where he and Kitasato Shibasaburo independently discovered the plague bacillus while studying an outbreak of plague in China.

Second of four sons of Nancy (nee Lovemore) and Richard, Peter was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), in the city of Livingstone, "within earshot of Victoria Falls" as he described it, where his father worked in the colonial civil service.

His first 25 years, indeed, were like pages torn from a Boy's Own adventure: colonial military service, skirmishes on the North-West Frontier, gruelling night marches, a great cavalry charge, and a daring escape from a Boer war prison.