Text source: GoanVoice UK Summary: This week Selma Carvalho attends a talk by Historical-Geographer Cliff Pereira to discover how we can trace our Goan roots. The story of two Goan men in Africa unfolds to reveal startling details of how they inadvertently ended on different sides in World War I...It begins with a Louis Mendes born in the village of Candolin, in 1900, who decides at the tender age of 17 to travel to Tanganyika (now Tanzania), then a German colony...Meanwhile another member of Pereira’s family, D. Pereira takes up a job with the British Royal Navy as an Officers’ Cook First Class. Born in July 1876, he presumably lies about his age...Pereira’s research to unearth aspects of his history which have long been forgotten by family or buried alongside those who have passed away, is rigorous...
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