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Name: STEVENS, Frank Lewis MBE
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1887 Penarth, Glamorgan
Death Date: 21 Feb 1955 Nairobi
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1955
Profession: Arrived to join staff of Engineering Branch of Post Office
Area: Mombasa, Nairobi
Married: Jeanie Brown Maxwell b. 10 Mar 1901, d. 2003 Towcester
Children: Mary B. (1921 Kenya); Elizabeth Lewis 'Elsie' (7 Oct 1922 Mombasa-17 June 2013 Reading, m. Dr Peter Williams son of J.H. Williams); Jeanie M. (1925)
Book Reference: Gillett, Staff 39, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Colonial, Red 22, Dominion, Barnes, Gazette
General Information:
Staff 39 - Asst. Engineer, Posts & Telegraphs Dept., in 1939, appointed 1934. Originally Telegraph Inspector, 1913
Colonial - Div. Engnr. EA 1946
Dominion - Public Works Department - Posts and Telegraphs Dept. - Sub-Engineer - 1930
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Frank Lewis Stevens, died 21 Feb 1955 aged 67
Gazette 14/1/1914 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - 2nd Class Telegraph Inspector - 25/12/1913
KAD 1922 Sub-Engineer, Telegraph Dept.
Awarded MBE for outstanding work in keeping communications open during WW2. Retired 1950.
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Penarth, as Telegraph engineer, Kenya