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Name: SMART, Leslie Masson CBE
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1889 Fordoun, Kincardineshire
Death Date: 17 Jan 1972 Salisbury, Rhodesia
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1927
Profession: Railway traffic manager
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Zanzibar 9 Nov 1928 Annie Eliza Smith b. 1886, d. 5 Oct 1976 Greendale, Rhodesia
Children: none
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Colonial, Debrett, Red 22, Gazette, North, Who's Who
War Service: Uganda Railway Volunteer Reserve
General Information:
Colonial - Asst. Supt. KUR&H 1919-27; Dep. Traffic Manager Tanganyika Rlys. 1927; Gen. Manager Gold Coast Rly. 1933; Gen. Mgr. FMS Rlys 1937
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, North Area - Leslie Masson Smart - Assistant Traffic Manager, Uganda Railway, Salisbury Road
KAD 1922 - Asst. Traffic Manager, Uganda Railway.
Went to Federated Malay States 1937
Susan Munro: He received his CBE for his work on the Gold Coast Railway, when he was in Malaya. He and Annie also survived four years in a Japanese POW camp.