Hi Dave,
That's OK you furnished the Willesdon which I had not included.
I have just stumbled across the death on Family Search website, of Ivy Agnes Sheldon born in Aswan, Egypt. She died as Ivy Agnes Gardner-Smith on 23rd Feb 1993 aged 89 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her husband was Gerald Gardner-Smith. It mentions her birth as 25th Sept/1903 Aswan, Egypt.
Horace Henry Sheldon , wife Julia and all their children are on the 1891 Census in Scotland
Cottagest Floor?, East Princes Street, Row, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
In 1911 Horace, age 54, is an inmate at the Grenoside Workhouse.
"on his father's Military papers found by Terry, should be transcribed as NUBIA, Upper Egypt."
Still can't figure it out, but not Nubia (also apparently an old name for Aswan).
Can't paste the image here.
Terry. You are right. I thought it said "at nubia upper Egypt". Having looked again I believe it says "al Maris upper Egypt"
Note that al-Maris is the arabic name for the Aswan region.
To complete the picture on Horace H Sheldon, William C E's father:
In 1921 he was an inmate at the Fulham Palace Road Workhouse. His death is registered in Uxbridge in 1929.
Dave