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Name: WINTER, James Vincent
Birth Date: 12 Feb 1894 Cape Province, S. Africa
Death Date: 20 Apr 1973 Chelsea
First Date: 1914
Profession: Farmer
Area: P.O. Kitale, 1922 Endebess, Merrowdown Farm, Kitale
Married: In London 1926 Magdalen Sinclair Anderson b. 4 Feb 1889 Inverell, New South Wales, d. 1978 Westminster 'Duchess of Endebess' (prev. m. to Edward George Lowther-Crofton b. 1874)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Red 22, Lander
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - C Sqdn. 25/11/15
General Information:
EAMR - Member of 'The Rest' Cricket Team v Officers & Sergeants - Christmas 1915 - Trooper Winter
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - James Vincent Winter, Farmer PO Kitale
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List has John Vincent, farmer, Endebess and Magdalen Sinclair
Red 22 - J.N. Winter, Hoey's Bridge
Lander - Endebess - "The Winters had been in Kenya for 30 years. This was the first farm at which I had stayed, and it was here that I found what charming people farmers and their wives were. There was fine silver, cut glass, an elegant hostess, and all the comforts of civilized life. The Air Mail edition of The Times, magazines and the radio kept these people up to date with all the affairs of the world. Jimmy Winter worked hard, out every morning by 7am busy maintaining the high standard of this large farm which he had built up himself. In the evening he looked most dapper in his velvet smoking jacket, when, with the ladies also changed for dinner, we relaxed."