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"The Colonel Sahib" with his two sons 1947
2nd Everest expedition with Dr. Graham in Kalimpong
A collection of scriptures, including the front page of the 1821 New Testament from Serampur (William Carey) and the 1914 Darjeeling Bible (Ganga Prasad Pradhan).
Ang Tschering at the army barracks, Tidworth, UK
Back row standing: Nar Bahadur (white shirt and moustache); Front row standing: Right - Sheeba, N.C. Pradhan, teacher; Sitting: Left - John Tenzing, .... Ian Bull; Front row: Children of the teachers
Birendra Gurung
Birendra Rongong, ministering among Gurkhas in Edinburgh. Early 1990s
Central Asian Mission 1919
Central Asian Mission 1920
Central Asian Mission 1921 v19 n4
Central Asian Mission 1921 v19 n5
Colonel Nararaj Shamshere at Bible translation
Colonel Nararaj Shamshere, JBR serving tea in his home in the terai near Raxaul, 1947
Colonel Nararaj Shamshere, member of the Bible Society's Nepali Bible Revision Committee, 1955
Dhanbahadur Sunwar
Eastern Himalayan Church Council (EHCC) Youth Conference, Gangtok, 1959
First revision / translation conference, Darjeeling, Nov 1955. From left: William Scott, HC Pradhan, Col Nararaj Shamshere, HC Duncan, Mahendra Kumar, KD Pradhan.
From left: HC Pradhan, the Colonel Sahib and Rev HC Duncan working on the translation of the Nepali New Testament
Front page of Nepali New Testament translated by William Carey in 1821.
Ganga Prasad Pradhan, pastor, teacher and Bible translator, Darjeeling
Geylegphug congregation, Bhutan
Group photographs, Darjeeling 1949: Back row; Ernest Oliver, Beth McCabe, Mildred Ballard, Aza Child, Pearl Treasure, Patricia Strong, Lawrie Raynor, HC Duncan, G Phillip, Mr Woolsey, Mr Garrison, Dan Cronk; Third Row: George McCabe, Milly Hellelquist, Esther Fritz, Margaret McCabe, Eileen Raynor, Rita Skillbeck, Elizabeth Franklin; Second Row: Miss Morton, Hilda Steele, Grace Walthers, Beth Allinger, Elaine Craine, Miss Thompson; Front Row: Pat O'Hanlon, Becky Grimsrud, Ruth Horne, Irene Stephens, Ellen Meincke
Group photographs, Darjeeling 1953: Back row; Roy Hagen, - , Ralph Cunningham; Third row: HC Duncan, Ruth Watson, Alma Hagen, Jean Raddon, Betty Cunningham, Fran Swenson, Becky Grimsrud, Jeanette Leathead; Second row: Daniel Mukhia, Elizabeth Franklin, Surjamati Rongong, Rita Skillbeck, HC Pradhan, - , Esther Fritz, Daisy Fowles; Front row: KD Mukhia, - , - , Dale Lethead.
Group photographs, Gorakhpur 1954
Group photographs, Raxaul 1937: Back row: John Leach, Walter Corlett, Cecil Duncan; Fourth Row: Garrison (?), Ernest Oliver, PO Wynd, HC Duncan, Edith Cracknell, Mildred Ballard; Middle row: Mr Perry, Neville Everard, Edith Dyer, Hilda Steele; Second row: Mrs Perry, Hope Lee, Aileen Duncan, Dora Nicholes, Mrs Duncan; Front Row: Pat O'Hanlon, Gordon Duncan, Ruth Horne
Group photographs, Raxaul 1948: Back row: Grace Walthers, Trevor Strong, George McCabe, G. Phillip, Ernest Oliver, Herbert Pritchard, Daniel Mukhia, Jac Dyke, Lawrie Raynor, J Anderson, Hilda Steele; Middle row: Becky Grimsrud, Milly Hasselquist, Ruth Horne, Mildred Ballard, Sylvia Redstone, Dorothy Dillon, Margaret McCabe, Bertel Vine; Front Row: Miss Personeus, Eileen Raynor, Helen Dyke, Beth McCabe, Esther Fritz, Patricia Strong with Dorothy, Dorothy Rowe, Amy McBurney, Pat O'Hanlon
Gurkha Fellowship, St. Martin's Church, Sekong, Hong Kong, 1973/74
HC Pradhan, the Colonel Sahib and Rev HC Duncan at work. Photo printed in Regions Beyond Missionary Union (RBMU) Magazine, 1961.
In the home of Jim and May Kirk, Tidworth, England. (Jim Kirk at back). Back row: Dil Bahadur, Ang Tschering, - , - , Birendra Gurung, - ; Middle left side: Nar Bahadur Satri, - , - ; Front row: Tek Bahadur (drummer), Kirkadhoj, Bom Bahadur, Dhan Bahadur, Kim Rana
Jim (Army Scripture Reader) and May Kirk, Tidworth
Jonathan Lindell and Ron Byatt working on Christian literature in Kathmandu.
Kartik Singh
Kharkadhoj and Kanta Limbu
Kim Rana, Nar Bahadur Sahi
Kirka, Tek, Dilman, Mek and Bom, in the army barracks, Tidworth
M.S. Rana and Nar Bdr. behind, Birendra and Chandra Psd. Rai in front
Mukti Singh and Shanti Rana
Nar Bahadur and Khima Sahi
Nepal Mission 1896-1898
Nepal Mission 1899-1901
Nepal Mission 1902-1905
Prithwilal Ghale
Rev. Dyongshi Sada (1845-1920), recruited by Macfarlane.
Rev. William Macfarlane
Roy Hagen with a display of Christian literature.
Sukhman Limboo
The "Gorka Patra", produced by Ganga Prasad Pradhan, and held in the Madhan Memorial Library at Patan Gate, Kathmandu.
The first group baptised, Ang Tschering, - , - , Khem Bdr. Rana, Kharkadhoj Limbu, Birendra Gurung
The late Rev. W. M. Macfarlane, M.A., first missionary to establish a lasting work amongst Nepalis with churches and schools in the Darjeeling District (1868-1886).
Tilok Singh Subba
Translation experts discuss problems in the Nepalese translation (l to r) Prof LM Kubchandani, the Rev R Hagen, Rev DD Pradhan and HC Pradhan.

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