Source 1b shows the ‘1914-15 Star’, ‘British War’ and ‘British Victory’ medals from the First World War. [CC BY-SA 3.0, Europeana 1914-1918 project via wikimedia commons].
This First World War Medal guide says that the medals were nick-named after animal characters in a comic strip in the Daily Mirror newspaper. The popular cartoons featured Pip the dog, Squeak the penguin and Wilfred the rabbit.
Newspaper obituary, Skegness News, 1 May 1935 p5 [Joan Robson (nee Luale) Personal Archive].
Letter from Colonial Office to Native administrator Mr Moffat Thomson on leave in the UK from Northern Rhodesia. Bulaya had worked for Moffat Thomson before he worked for Stewart Gore-Brown. Catalogue ref: CO 796/6 f597
Pamphlet from the 19th Battalion London Regiment Old Comrades’ Association [Joan Robson (nee Luale) Personal Archive].
Certified copy of marriage certificate. [Joan Robson (nee Luale) Personal Archive].
Chief Luale with daughter Joan at the Animal Menagerie c1933 [Joan Robson (nee Luale) Personal Archive].
May Luale with daughter Joan c1933 [Joan Robson (nee Luale) Personal Archive].
Letter from Bulaya, also known as, ‘H.W. Jackson’ to the Colonial Office 18 April 1923, Catalogue ref: CO 796/6 f592
Theatre company registration certificate, 20 November 1934, [Joan Robson (nee Luale). Personal archive].
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Two photographs of shows produced by Chief Luale. Source 6a circa 1930-1933 and 6b circa 1934, [Joan Robson (nee Luale) Personal archive]. Source 6a is entitled Chief Luale: showing manners and customs from Northern Rhodesia’.
These photographs relate to Bulaya’s life as a ‘showman’. In source 6a Chief Luale directed the group. In source 6b he is presenting the group and in the centre of the photograph.