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Name: WEAVER, Walter James
Birth Date: 10 Apr 1917 Cheltenham
Death Date: 30 Apr 1955 killed by Mau Mau at Naivasha while accompanying a patrol of Royal Irish Fusiliers across his farm
Profession: Farmer. Killed accompanying a patrol of the Royal Irish Fusiliers across his farm, 15 Miles from Naivasha
Area: Box 47, Nakuru
Married: 1. In Cheltenham 1940 Winifred Elva Young b. 19 Apr 1917 Cheltenham, d. 2003 Bristol; 2. In Nairobi 24 June 1947 Ann Priscilla Taylor b. at 'Lorakoorti', South Kinangop 10 November 1926, d. Noosa, Queensland, Australia 27 April 2011 Tewantin, Queensland (dau of Francis George Taylor and later m. Gerald Bernard Lofthouse b. 1933)
Children: Mark; son (1949); son (1950); dau. (1953)
Book Reference: Info from son Mark Weaver, Tom Lawrence
War Service: Sergeant, 309 Field Regiment (Army Transport Service), East African Command
General Information:
Daily Telegraph 2 May 1955:
“Mr. Weaver was on his way to join a party of Royal Irish Fusiliers hunting a terrorist gang and was searching a field on his own farm when he stumbled on a terrorist who was hiding. The terrorist shot him in the stomach and then ran off. The two soldiers who were with the farmer opened fire and brought down the man. Mr. Weaver died on the way to hospital. The terrorist died today [2nd May 1955]. He was identified as the self-styled Major Kingari, a bearded middle-aged Kikuyu, believed to have been leading a detachment of about ten men from a large gang hidden on the edge of the Aberdares and overlooking the Kinangop river. This is believed to be the group which attacked the workers’ living quarters on a European farm near Mr. Weaver’s. They were driven off by farm guards.”