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Dutch Burger Union Comrades 1.

from David Jansze.
The only persons I can identify in this photo are the following:

1. The elderly gentlemen seated at the extreme left is Clarence Basil Hermann Drieberg b.22.3.1877 d.27.9.1943 m.20.4.1904 Maria Clementina Ebert b.2.1.1882 d.4.8.1951. He is my maternal grandfather, who was the Chairman of the Committee overlooking the formation of "The Comrades".
2. Three seats away from him is Clementine Phyllis Cynthia Drieberg b.14.5.1910 d.9.1.1973 (in Scotland) m.5.10.1935 James George Mowat Ross of Scotland b.1902 d.11.7.1952, his second daughter and one of three younger sisters of my mother.
3. Seated on the left of the President of the D.B.U. [who is in the centre] is my mother, Dorothy Maria Mabel Drieberg b.15.7.1907 d.24.3.1986 m.10.4.1939 my father Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze' b.16.2.1909 d.16.6.1966. She was the eldest of four daughters of Mr. C.B.H. Drieberg
4. Standing right behind the President is Gladys Eileen Julia Drieberg b.7.8.1913 d.12.12.1974 m.29.5.1937 Rudolph Archibald de Saram Jayetileke b.24.11.1904 d.25.2.1986. She was C.B.H. Drieberg's third daughter.
5. Standing in the third row right behind my mother is my father, Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze' BA (Hons) London, Attorney-at-Law, Queen's Counsel (QC) Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), Attorney General of Ceylon 1956-1966.
6. In the third row at the extreme right is Benjamin Blaze'. He was a close friend of my parents. They used to meet regularly to play Bridge, till he and his family emigrated to Melbourne. He was in the forefront of the Burgher community in Melbourne, as well as throughout Australia.

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from David Jansze.<br /> The only persons I can identify in this photo are the following:<br /> <br /> 1. The elderly gentlemen seated at the extreme left is Clarence Basil Hermann Drieberg b.22.3.1877 d.27.9.1943 m.20.4.1904 Maria Clementina Ebert b.2.1.1882 d.4.8.1951. He is my maternal grandfather, who was the Chairman of the Committee overlooking the formation of "The Comrades".<br /> 2. Three seats away from him is Clementine Phyllis Cynthia Drieberg b.14.5.1910 d.9.1.1973 (in Scotland) m.5.10.1935 James George Mowat Ross of Scotland b.1902 d.11.7.1952, his second daughter and one of three younger sisters of my mother.<br /> 3. Seated on the left of the President of the D.B.U. [who is in the centre] is my mother, Dorothy Maria Mabel Drieberg b.15.7.1907 d.24.3.1986 m.10.4.1939 my father Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze' b.16.2.1909 d.16.6.1966. She was the eldest of four daughters of Mr. C.B.H. Drieberg<br /> 4. Standing right behind the President is Gladys Eileen Julia Drieberg b.7.8.1913 d.12.12.1974 m.29.5.1937 Rudolph Archibald de Saram Jayetileke b.24.11.1904 d.25.2.1986. She was C.B.H. Drieberg's third daughter.<br /> 5. Standing in the third row right behind my mother is my father, Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze' BA (Hons) London, Attorney-at-Law, Queen's Counsel (QC) Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), Attorney General of Ceylon 1956-1966.<br /> 6. In the third row at the extreme right is Benjamin Blaze'. He was a close friend of my parents. They used to meet regularly to play Bridge, till he and his family emigrated to Melbourne. He was in the forefront of the Burgher community in Melbourne, as well as throughout Australia.
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