Enid Gordon-Gallien

Enid Gordon-Gallien was the wife of Captain Gordon Gallien, an engineer of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. With him she had travelled extensively. She had been involved in the First World War in both France and Egypt. Gordon-Gallien was a member of the Royal Geographical Society. She studied with Mr Reeves of the Royal Geographical Society in 1925 and in 1928 and she studied field astronomy and surveying. At that point she began investigating what expeditions she could run. The president of the society, Colonel Sir Charles Close, proposed the as then unmapped Kalambo Falls. Prior to this, Gordon-Gallien had driven her car across the desert to Baghdad as well as becoming shipwrecked on the Barrier Reef while journeying to join her husband in Borneo.{{cite news|newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |date= 20 December 1918|title=AN IDLE WOMAN'S DIARY|page=7| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137488436/15158235}}
- {{cite book|author=Pierre Bertaux|title=Un normalien à Berlin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V_DHippbHOQC|year=2001|publisher=Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle|isbn=978-2-910212-16-2}}
- {{cite journal|journal=The Geographical Journal|title=MEETINGS : ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY : SESSION 1922-1923 |date=1923|volume=LXI-January to June 1923}}{{cite journal | last1=Close | first1=Charles | last2=Melland | first2=F. H. | title=The Kalambo River and Falls: Discussion | journal=The Geographical Journal | volume=74 | issue=1 | year=1929 | issn=0016-7398 | doi=10.2307/1784943 | page=44| jstor=1784943 }}

Gordon-Gallien began at Dar-es-Salaam on 15 June 1928. Other members of the party were J. W. Cornwall, a surveyor, and Colin Rose, a geologist. The expedition was written up and presented to the society in 1929. As a result of her work on the expedition, Gordon-Gallien was awarded the Back Award in 1930.{{cite news|date =24 June 1930|newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/258857866/|title=Kalambo Falls}}
- {{cite book | last=Green | first=Lawrence G. | title=Great Road North | via=Internet Archive | date=1961|publisher=Howard Timmins | url=https://archive.org/stream/GreatRoadNorth/greatRoadNorth_djvu.txt | accessdate=6 November 2018}}
- {{cite book|author=John Desmond Clark|title=Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_r08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR19|year=1969|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=19–|id=GGKEY:H4E29783T4E}}
- {{cite journal | last=Gordon-Gallien | first=Enid | title=The Kalambo River and Falls | journal=The Geographical Journal | volume=74 | issue=1 | year=1929 | pages=28–32 | issn=0016-7398 | doi=10.2307/1784940 | jstor=1784940 }}
- {{cite web | title=LIVINGSTONE TREE| date=2 April 1929 | url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19290402-1.2.15 | work=The Straits Times|page=3|accessdate=6 November 2018}}
- {{cite book | title=The Kalambo River and Falls |author= Enid Gordon-Gallien| publisher=Royal Geographical Society|location=London|date=1929 }}

Gordon-Gallien gained her aviators certificate in August 1930 through National Flying Services at Hanworth Aerodrome. However, she was killed in a plane crash, as a passenger, when flying with her friend and co-owner of the plane, the noted pilot Sicele O'Brien on 18 June 1931.{{cite book | title=Report of Meeting of the Committee of the Royal Aero Club | work=Flight | date=22 August 1930 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Flight_International_Magazine_1930-08-22-pdf/Flight_International_Magazine_1930-08-22-pdf_djvu.txt | accessdate=6 November 2018}}
- {{cite web | title=Inquest on Two Airwomen | url=http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/thawes/media/cGF0aDovSW1hZ2UyLTIuanBn/?ref= | date= |work=unknown |accessdate=6 November 2018}}
- {{cite web | title=Bluebird crashes at Hatfield Airport, Herefordshire, UK 1931 | website=PPRuNe Forums | date=17 January 2012 | url=https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-474603.html | accessdate=6 November 2018}}
- {{cite web | last=Ranter | first=Harro | title=Accident Blackburn L.1B Bluebird III G-AABF, 18 Jun 1931 | website=Aviation Safety Network | date=23 January 2010 | url=https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=71839 | access-date=2018-11-06}}
- {{cite web | title=Sicele O'Brien | website=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History | date= | url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Sicele_O%27Brien | accessdate=6 November 2018}}
- {{cite web | title=A list of fatal air accidents in Britain and Ireland 1930 - 1934 | website=rcawsey.co.uk | date=16 August 2018 | url=http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1934.htm | accessdate=6 November 2018}}

- {{cite web | title=The Age, 22 June 1931 Death Notices |website = trove.nla.gov.au |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/205850864?searchTerm=Gallien }}

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