Frank Coutts Hendry OBE, MC (1875–1955) served in the
Indian Army Reserve,
Merchant Navy,
Rangoon Pilot Service, was an Indian Army officer, and author.
[ His ]Military Cross
The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level (second-level pre-1993) military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and formerly awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.
The MC i ...
is in the Royal Museums Greenwich collections.William Blackwood
William Blackwood (20 November 177616 September 1834) was a Scottish publisher who founded the firm of William Blackwood and Sons.
Life
Blackwood was born in Edinburgh on 20 November 1776. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a firm of book ...
's Blackwood's Magazine and William Blackwood & Sons
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. He used the pseudonym Shalimar. Hendry was an influence on Courtenay Latiner.
Hendry wrote from his own experiences.[ His time at sea included on Singapore ships. Hendry eventually retired to an area in the north of Scotland to focus on writing.]
Bibliography
* ''A Windjammer's Half Deck''
* ''The Ocean Tramp''
* ''Land and Sea''
* ''From all the seas'' (1933)
* One Monsoon Night (1936)
* ''Down to the Sea'' (1937)
* ''From the Log Book of Memory''
* ''True tales of sail and steam ''
* ''Sail Ho!''
* ''The Yomah-and after''
* ''En havets demon''
* ''Deep seas and shoal rivers''
* ''The peaceful wanderer''
* ''From the log-book of memory'' (1950), an autobiography
* ''Around the horn and home again: and other tales'' (1929)
* ''Through the gap'', short story
* ''Easting Down'', short story
References
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Indian Army personnel
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1875 births
1955 deaths
British people in colonial India
British people in British Burma