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Name: WONTNER, Percy Harold
Short Name: son of Conrad Wontner Wunderlich
Nee: bro of Hugh Sidney and Roland Conrad Wontner
Birth Date: 7 Oct 1897 London
Death Date: 10 June 1993 Perth, Australia
First Date: 1927
Profession: KUR; EAR&H chief administrator
Area: Nairobi, 1952 Kiambu. 1922 Machakos, 1938 Eldoret
Married: Catherine Thomson Wilson b. 7 Aug 1907 Kinross, Fifeshire-1979 Swan Hill, Victoria, Aus. (dau of George Wilson, farmer)
Children: Graham Wilson Wontner (13 Sep 1939 Nairobi); Diana Louise (16 Aug 1942 Eldoret); Jennifer Margaret (13 Apr 1944 Eldoret)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Dominion
General Information:
Dominion - Public Works Department - Railways - Engineering - Office Superintendent - 1930
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll expunged
Graham Wontner (son): My father initially worked for the Colonial Office. London. 10 Downing Street on special duties. East African Railways and Harbours as a Chief Administrator.