General Messervy: A Biography
For a website devoted to historical (or quasi-historical) topics, I've never actually posted a biography. Well, that has now officially changed. The person I have chosen to be my first to have his life discussed? General Sir Frank Walker Messervy (1893-1974) , an officer in the British Indian Army who served in both World Wars. From Messervy Stories : Sir Frank Walter Messervy , although not born in Jersey, was the son of Walter John Messervy of St. Helier, Jersey (1861-1955). Walter was an accountant who took up a position as a bank manager in Trinidad. There he met his wife, Naida Myra de Boissière (b. abt. 1869) and their three children were born there. The de Boissières were a family of note in Trinidad, having descended from Jean Valleton de Boissière who emigrated to Trinidad in the late 1700s. The family held extensive estates and is distinct from other French immigrants by religion (Protestant) and their sometimes unconventional lifestyl...