QSL Cards: VQ2RB – Ralph Barlow
Ralph Barlow
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The Primitive Methodist Church Kanchindu Mission The Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (PMMS) expanded its reach in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) to the BaTonga (Tonga) peoples with the establishment of Sijoba Mission in 1901. Soon after arriving at Sijoba in 1907, Rev. John R. Fell moved the mission down river, leaving Sijoba as an outstation. The new…
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa British Central Africa The Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) was founded in the late 1850s, after the return of Dr David Livingstone from the region in 1857. This “high church” Anglican society drew its missionaries initially from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and Dublin. Under its motto…
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Smart & Copley Ltd Crest Series (Green) – N Series – Photo by Mr J E Hughes, Luena, N Rhodesia FB
Last Day of Northern Rhodesia 23 October 1964 The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formally dissolved on 31 December 1963, and the country became the independent Republic of Zambia on 24 October 1964, with Kaunda as President. Zambia became the first country ever to change its name and flag between the opening and closing ceremonies…
Northern Rhodesia 1925 – George V Definitive