177:'We arrived in the summer of 1944, and though the war had only just over a year to run, and our stay lasted only till the month of December 1945, this proved perhaps the most formative period of my life. It was not for us a violent period, but the experience of working on current enemy messages, always incomplete and requiring emendation, the experience, that is, of applying text-critical techniques, learned on the spot, to practical warfare, was something never to be forgotten. It was, too, a period when lifelong friendships were formed. We were a compact and harmonious group of civilians, naval officers and Wrens, and the unique association we formed then has lasted, for some of us, ever since.'
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had one older brother, Walter Harry Bawden, who joined the Royal Navy as an engineer cadet before the outbreak of the Second World War. Charles spent
Christmas Day 1945 with him aboard his submarine in Hong Kong harbour. Bawden was educated at Weymouth Grammar School. He won a scholarship in Modern Languages at
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Charles Bawden was born in
Weymouth. His father was George Charles Bawden (1891-1963) and his mother was Eleanor Alice Adelaide Russell (1888-1983). Both of his grandfathers had served in the Royal Navy. His parents were schoolteachers, though his mother was required to resign upon marriage. Charles
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I remember very clearly spending some days at the
Supreme Court, supervising Japanese internees who were translating depositions for a war crimes trial which was in progress. Even at the time, it seemed to me that this particular trial was a rather dubious procedure, and the verdict a foregone
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Bawden joined the Navy in
February 1943 as an ordinary seaman. Owing to his linguistic ability he had been selected for Japanese training even before being called up. He was posted to the secret Bedford Japanese School and joined the 4th course (July to December 1943). He proved to be the best
210:. After a year in the Home Office, he returned to Cambridge with a Treasury Studentship to take up the study of Chinese. He subsequently began work on a PhD in Chinese but by that time his interests had turned to Mongolian, which he had begun studying under Professor
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In addition to having been elected a Fellow of the
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that is often cited as the most comprehensive available. There is an extensive assessment of his scholarship in his
British Academy obituary. Among his students were
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On returning to
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in
Colombo and had been one of his colleagues there. They had four children. Jean died in 2010. Bawden died on 11 August 2016 at the age of 92.
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On 3 August 1949 Bawden married Jean Barham
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Bawden, Charles (1967). "A Joint Petition of Grievances Submitted to the Ministry of Justice of Autonomous Mongolia in 1919".
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Bawden, Charles (1957). "A First Description of a Collection of Mongol Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge".
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Bawden, Charles (1977). "A note on the inscriptions on two Chinese rugs in the Victoria and Albert Museum".
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Bawden, Charles (1969). "The Investigation of a Case of Attempted Murder in Eighteenth-Century Mongolia".
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Bawden, C. R. (1976). On the Evils of Strong Drink: A Mongol Tract from the Early Twentieth Century.
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The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobci, The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga, The Modern History of Mongolia
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student on the course and after he had been commissioned he was sent to the Naval Section at the
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He wrote extensively on Mongolian history and literature, and published a Mongolian-English
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Bawden, C. R. (1970). "Some Documents Concerning the Rebellion of 1756 in Outer Mongolia".
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conclusion. I was invited to witness the subsequent hangings, but declined the privilege.
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Bawden, Charles (1965). "Some Notes on the Horse Policy of the Yuan Dynasty".
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Bawden, Charles (1969). "A Case of Murder in Eighteenth-Century Mongolia".
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An eighteenth century Chinese source for the Portuguese dialect of Macao."
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Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals: The English Missionaries in Siberia.
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Bawden, Charles (1958). "Two Mongol Texts Concerning Obo-Worship".
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Confronting the Supernatural: Mongolian Traditional Ways and Means.
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Confronting the Supernatural: Mongolian Traditional Ways and Means
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Bawden, Charles (1984–85). "The wish-prayer for Shambhala again".
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The Jebtsundamba Khutukhtus of Urga; text, translation, and notes.
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Bawden, Charles (1960). "Some Recent Work in Mongolian Studies".
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Bawden, Charles (1962). "Calling the Soul: A Mongolian Litany".
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Bawden, Charles (1968). "The Mongol rebellion of 1756–1757".
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Bawden, Charles (1960). "Economic Advance in Mongolia".
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