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Name: MAXWELL, Frank Osborne (Major)
Birth Date: 2.12.1867 Bethnal Green
Death Date: 28.8.1941 Bridge, Kent
First Date: 1930
Profession: Salvation Army
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1 Beatrice Bussey; 2. In Bombay 23 Oct 1924 Daisy Mary Thorne b. 13 May 1882 (she was Canadian, a schoolteacher from Newfoundland)
Book Reference: Red 31
General Information:
Ancestry After mother's death lived with grandparents outside Londonderry. Won cycle races and ran a cycle business. Became Salv. Army officer in 1903 and travelled extensively in India and Africa. Invented a weaving loom. Retired to England 1932 and built a bungalow in Herne Bay. In WW2 distributed clothing to air-raid victims. Knocked off his bike when returning and died a few hours later.
1939 England and Wales Register living in Brighton with wife