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Name: DORAN, Beauchamp John Colclough (Major-General)
Birth Date: 24.9.1860 Calcutta, India
Death Date: 23.11.1943 Wexford, Ireland
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Profession: EAP - Telegraph Engineer; erecting telegraph line from Naivasha to Kisumu; Near Naivasha Jan 1900. Elephant hunter
Area: Naivasha
Married: 1. In Celbridge, Kildare 30 July 1903 Mary Armit Lees b. 1852 Merrion, Co. Dublin, d. 11 Aug 1932 Wexford (previously m. to William MacGeough Bond 1836-1896); 2. In London 1933 Florence Foscue Fairchild b. 29 Mar 1888 Sulphur Springs, Texas
Book Reference: North, Web, Adventurers, Red 22, Chandler
War Service: Formerly Royal Irish Regt.
General Information:
North - Due to take up appointment in Zanzibar but went missing at Mombasa and found to have been trying to walk back to Nairobi, May 1905
Web - Entered Army 1880; Afghanistan 1880; Nile expedition 1884-1885; Hazara expedition 1888; Bde Maj, Miranzai expedition 1891; Staff Officer, North West Frontier, India 1897; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Tirah expedition, North West Frontier, India 1897-1898; South African War 1899-1902; Commander, mobile column of mounted troops, South Africa 1901-1902; Lt Col commanding 1 Bn, Royal Irish Regt 1904-1908; Commander, 8 Infantry Bde 1912-1915; World War I 1914-1918; Commander, 25 Div 1915-1916; Commander, Southern District, Ireland 1916-1918; Commander, No 5 Area, British Troops, France and Flanders 1919; retired 1920
Red 22 has T. Doran, Kingane Est., Toro, Uganda
Chandler - A man named Doran worked constructing telegraph lines in the Congo in the 1900s but quit to become an elephant hunter.