HAMEEM ABDUL HAMID MEEDIN WAS BORN ON 2ND APRIL 1913 TO AJJONE MEEDIN A POLICE SEARGENT & DEVI NONA UMMA INGHA WHILST HIS FATHER WAS SERVIING IN THE TRINCOMALEE POLICE

AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS H M UNCLE AMONG HIS NEPHEWS & NEICES HE WAS A AFFABLE ,INTELLEGENT, WELL READ & GENEROUS MUSLIM

HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION AT ST THOMAS' COLLEGE MT. LAVINIA DURING THE TIME OF WARDEN STONE HAVING STUDIED GREEK ,LATIN & LITERATURE HE WOULD MOST OFTEN QUOTE SHAKESPHERE, MILTON,THE BIBLE & WAS A WALKING DICTIONARY

AFTER FINISHING HIS CAMBRIDGE MATRICULATION HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL ORDNANCE FORCE DURING WORLD WAR TWO & WAS POSTED TO THE NORTH AFRICAN & MIDDLE EAST THEATRE

ON HIS RETURN HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE MERCANTILE SECTOR OF WHICH THE LONGEST STINT HAD BEEN WITH WALKER & GREIG(BROWNS GROUP)AS A STENOGRAPHER TILL HIS RETIREMENT

AFTER HIS MARRIAGE TO GNEI FAREENA JAYAH HE HAD LIVED IN FOUNTAIN HOUSE LANE,DEANS ROAD,MARADANA:VAUXHALL LANE ,SLAVE ISLAND & FINALLY SETTLED DOWN AT AKBAR TOWN WATTALA

HE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON 6TH JUNE 1996 AT 11AM AND WAS BURIED AT AKBAR TOWN MUSLIM BURIAL GROUNDS THE NEXT MORNING

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