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Name: GORGES, Edmond Howard CB, CBE, DSO (Brig.-General)
Nee: second son of Capt. Richard Archibald Gorges, RMA
Birth Date: 23.11.1868 Portsmouth
Death Date: 26.10.1949 Petersfield
Nationality: British
First Date: 1898
Profession: DC in Naivasha
Area: Naivasha, Ribo, Nandi, Kericho
Married: 1. In Skibbereen 3 July 1900 Sylvia Rosalie Townsend b. 16 Oct 1872 Dublin, d. 24 Apr 1935 Castletownshend, Cork (div. 1921); 2. In Kensington 1921 Mrs Irene Maud Dinnen née Bury b. 1877 Scarborough, d. 1963 Hove (prev. m. Campbell Hackwood Dinnen d. 1915)
Children: Sylvia Mary (di Maria) (15 Dec 1904 Castlehaven-1982); Richard Archibald
Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, Kenya Diary, Borderland, Debrett, EAS, Hut, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, DSO, Burke, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907
War Service: Manchester Regt.
School: Roy. Military Coll., Sandhurst
General Information:
Moyse - The affair at Ribo Post 1900-01 - message to Capt. C.E. Bagnall at Eldama Ravine - "Dear Bagnall, I am having a bad time, fever bad, and having to fight all the time. The natives are one too many for us, bad rifles and too few men. Hope to hold out. Yours urgently, H. Hyde Baker." scribbled on a piece of paper. Ribo was 140 miles north of Eldama Ravine. .... Hyde Baker had been appointed to command Ribo post. ..... May 1900 Capt. C.E. Bagnall, the Acting Collector, Baringo District marched from Eldama to punish Cheptulel people. ....... In Jan 1901 a military expedition left Ravine under the command of Capt. E.H. Gorges for Ribo ..... soon after the post at Ribo was abandoned! ........................ 1901 - Col. Manning impressed by excellent intelligence reports compiled by the military officers in Uganda especially those of Major Gorges and Major H.B. Rattray. .......... 1902 - trouble with Nandi - EA Govt. applied for the services of Major Gorges to take military and civil control. Jackson had a high opinion of Gorge's capability in handling natives. ......... commanded No 1 column of the punitive expedition of the large Nandi Field Force of 1905
Borderland - 1902 - ...... decision to establish a post in Lumbwa (at Kericho). Major (now Colonel) E.H. Gorges DSO was placed in charge of the country ..... Col. Gorges, myself [Lt. H.A. Wilson] and my British Sergeant-Instructor were pretty fully occupied.
Debrett - entered Machester Regt. 1887, became Capt. 1896, Major 1901, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1906, Brevet Col. 1910, Lieut.-Col. W. African Regt. 1912, Comdt. thereof 1913, Col. 1917, and Hon. Brig.-Gen. (retired) 1919; Uganda 1897-9 (medal with 2 clasps), S. Africa 1900 (Queen's medal with 2 clasps), Comdg. Turkana Punitive Expedition 1901 (despatches, DSO), Somaliland 1904, Comdg. Camel Corps and Mounted Inf., Nandi Field Force 1905-6, in command of 1st Batn. King's African Rifles (despatches, medal with clasp, Brevet Lieut.-Col.), Cameroons 1914-16 Comdg. British Contingent (despatches, CB, CBE, Officer Legion of Honour); commanded troops in E. Africa and Zanzibar 1907; was a Brig.-Com. 1916-19; is a FRGS.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Appt. Uganda Mil.; dep Mombasa for Uganda 27/4/1898; arr Ravine 4/9/1898; District Commissioner Naivasha Jan July 1899; Civil & Mil. Officer Nandi; Dep. Ravine on expedn. to Suk country 9/1/1901; Ravine Oct. 1901; 4 KAR; OC Eastern Mil. Dist. at Lumbwa, Kericho Station May 1902; arr. Mombasa from Fort Ternan 17/1/1903, dep. for England 24/2/1903; awarded DSO 30/1/1903; arr Mombasa from England 3/7/1903
DSO - full description of his military career. He was awarded the DSO for his part in the Turkana Punitive Expedition, London Gazette 25/4/1902; Nandi Field Force 1905-6
He went to the assistance of Mackinder's expedition which, without his aid, would have been in serious difficulty over food supplies in the famine of 1899.
Moyse 1901 - Punitive expedition against Suk and Turkana (Ribo)
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