My grandfather, David Ford, was an undergraduate classmate of Hyram Bingham's at Dartmouth. Hyram asked him to be the Medical Doctor on the 1912 expidition. He is probably in some of the photos. He was 32 that year. He was tall and thin with a brown mustache and a stiff left leg.
I grew up with many of the same photos from the National Geographic on the walls of my grandparent's house. We have his camera from the expidition in our family room. He also took the camera to France during WWI (Royal Army Medical Corps) and then to China in the 20's (International Red Cross).
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
"My grandfather, David Ford, was an undergraduate classmate of Hyram Bingham's at Dartmouth. Hyram asked him to be the Medical Doctor on the 1912 expidition. He is probably in some of the photos. He was 32 that year. "
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I'll look for him in the pictures when I go see the exhibit, probably in the next couple of weeks.