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Name: WICKHAM, Edmund Hugh Whalley
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1885 Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk
Death Date: 19 Sep 1926 Nyeri
First Date: 1917
Last Date: 1926
Profession: KAR, coffee planter
Area: Nyeri
Married: In Brent Knoll, Somerset 21 Apr 1914 Evelyn Mary Brancker b. 16 Jan 1887 Taunton, d. 28 Aug 1973 Nairobi (div. and in 1914 m. Nino de Luigi 1886-1940)
Children: Mehala Mary Whalley (Trevaldwyn) (3 June 1916 Tabora POW camp-24 Feb 2014 Slough); Peter Reginald Whalley (26 Mar 1918 Nairobi-29 Apr 1970 Basingstoke)
Book Reference: Red 25, SS, KAD, Red 22
School: Marlborough
General Information:
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut. E.H.W. Wickham, East Brent Vicarage, Highbridge, Somerset - Farm 1237
Gazette - 30/8/1927 - Probate and Administration - Edmund Hugh Whalley Wickham late of Nyeri who died near Nyeri on 19 September 1926. Letters of Administration granted to Reginald Trelawney Wickham of Toro Uganda
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Edmund Hugh Whalley Wickham, Planter PO Nyeri
Hut - killed by elephant?
Ancestry His children were told that he died during a hunting accident whilst going after a rogue elephant which was a danger to a village.