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BCTFN HISTORY
1. A 1973 Constitutional
Document from UKCC
Terms of
Reference For The United Kingdom Charities Committee
Bangkok; Amended; (As passed by the Committee); April, 1973
2. A 1972 Report on UK
Related Charities and Donations in Thailand
A BRIEF ACCOUNT
OF THE PARTICIPATION OF THE BRITISH COMMUNITY IN BANGKOK,
THAILAND, IN THAI CHARITIES
From World War II to 1972 as outlined by Mr. C.S.I. Mabbatt,
C.B.E.,
and
Mrs. C.M. Madar
Excerpts
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the title above to read this amazing document (copied from
the original foolscap, typewritten sheets) for it contains a
wealth of important information not only concerning BCTFN,
UKCTC and Ploenchit Fair but also about expatriate culture
and the personalities who ran these organisations.
Excerpts include:
1941 Other fund raising efforts were made in the grounds of
private homes, including one particularly, at the home of
Binkie and Bill Streatfield (Manager of Bombay Burmah
Corp.).
After the War The British Club, during the war was taken over by the
Japanese who used it as a combined Officers-cum-Senior N.C.O.'s
Dining Club. Charles Mabbatt, who later became Chairman of
the British Club for a number of years, says: "I was asked to take the Club over on behalf of the Members
at the end of the war. This was arranged with the Thai
Government by Geoffrey Thompson, later Sir Geoffrey
Thompson, U.K. Ambassador to Thailand, and Victor Jaques of
Tilleke & Gibbons, Solicitors. I arrived at the empty Club
one morning, and whilst inspecting the upstairs was accosted
by a Japanese Officer with sword drawn, who wanted to know
what I was doing on Japanese property. I explained my
mission and he said
"I must accompany him to see his Commander". I was taken to
Nares Road where I was told to wait. Shortly afterwards the
Officer accompanied by another came out into the middle of
the road and formally presented me with the "front door key"
of the Club. We bowed ourselves apart!"
1952
They had the land on which is now the Petchaburi Road
extention. It was low-lying, boggy and could only be
approached by a
lane off Sukhumvit Road.
This piece of land bordered on Klong San Saeb and the
approach was over a hump-backed bridge across the Klong.
Read the full account
here
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