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  • Ernest Ignatius was a rising young Anglo-Indian singer/songwriter in the 1960s – he was born in Goa and was a cabaret artiste in India.

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    BOSSENCE, Ignatius Ernest

    Personal Details

    Service Number:Chaplain
    Enlisted: 25 September 1916
    Last Rank:Captain (Chaplain 4th Class)
    Last Unit:Australian Army Chaplains' Department
    Born:Melbourne, Victoria, 1887
    Home Town:Gundagai, Gundagai, New South Wales
    Schooling:Not yet discovered
    Occupation:RC Clergyman
    Died:Natural causes, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, 21 December 1969
    Cemetery:Not yet discovered
    Memorials:Gundagai War Memorial
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    Service History

    World War 1 Service

    25 Sep 1916:Involvement AIF WW1, Captain (Chaplain 4th Class) , Australian Army Chaplains' Department, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
    25 Sep 1916:EmbarkedAustralian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne
    25 Sep 1916:Enlisted AIF WW1, Cap

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    Wisbech care home welcomes singer and actor as resident

    Glennfield Care Home in Wisbech has its very own shining star in the shape of Goan-born actor Ernie who has become a resident.

    Ernie shot to fame in the 1960s when he released his song ‘I Married a hona Wrestler’ under his name Ernest Ignatius which made it onto the most popular radio hållplats in South Asia, Radio Ceylon.

    The song was played to an audience of millions of people and still remains popular with many people from South Asia – you can hear Ernie perform it by searching the song title on Youtube.

    After moving to London and becoming well known in the UK, Ernie began his acting career appearing in the ITV hit police drama, ‘The Bill’. This successful television debut led Ernie to appear on ‘Hotel Babylon’ and Cilla Black’s TV series, ‘Surprise, Surprise’.

    Ernie went on to star in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s ‘Bombay Dreams,’ in the West End, TV series Murphy’s Law, and later in his career, made an appearance in Coronat

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    Usha Uthup sang ‘I Married A Female Wrestler in the Bollywood Comedy Film, ‘Bombay to Goa’ released in 1972.

    Usha Uthup was interviewed by Vernon Corea in the early 1960s. Vernon featured her music over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon, subsequently the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. She had flown to Colombo as many other young aspiring Indian musicians did to be on radio programmes of Radio Ceylon. The station was ‘King of the Airwaves’ in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Vernon was instrumental in helping the music careers of so many, including musicians from the Indian sub-continent. In the 1980s, Usha Uthup was a frequent visitor to Vernon Corea’s BBC Office in The Langham, opposite BBC Broadcasting House. Vernon has also interviewed her on his popular BBC Radio London programme, ‘London Sounds Eastern.’

    In the film ‘Bombay to Goa’ the 1972 adventure-comedy Hindi movie starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Arun