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Descendants
of Zohrab of the Manuchariants
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Douglas was born in Heretaunga, Upper Hutt, and, after serving in
intelligence with the rank of Staff Sergeant in World War II, he got
engaged to Pauline Craig, a violinist, in 1945. This engagement
must have been broken off (reportedly because she went
overseas), and he married Rosemary Alice Miller in London in 1947.
His children were not told of the 1945 engagement (or many other details
about his life), and they first heard of it at his funeral in 2008.
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Photograph found in Douglas' bedside cabinet after his death --
possibly representing him and his father or older brother playing with
a rugby ball
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(Click on the photographs below to see them
in a larger format)
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Edward Goodwin Fortescue ("Fort") Zohrab (1870-1933) and his youngest
child Balfour Douglas ("Douglas") Zohrab (Earle Andrew Collection, Alexander
Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Maatauranga
o Aotearoa. Ref. No. F-35766-1/2. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull
Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Maatauranga o Aotearoa
must be obtained before any re-use of this image.)
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Guests (mainly non-immediate relatives of bride) at wedding of Alice
Rosemary ("Rosemary ") Miller and Balfour Douglas ("Douglas")
Zohrab in London, England, May 1947.
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Balfour Douglas ("Douglas") Zohrab with a truck stuck in mud after
the World War II Battle of Alamein, Egypt. (C W Carr Collection, Alexander
Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Maatauranga
o Aotearoa. Ref. No. C-22330-1/2. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull
Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Maatauranga o Aotearoa
must be obtained before any re-use of this image.)
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Defence Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1968. Left-to-Right:
New Zealand Defence Minister, NZ Prime Minister, NZ Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, and Balfour Douglas ("Doug") Zohrab
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