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Name: BUSWELL, Richard Walker 'Dick'
Birth Date: 16 Dec 1886 Drayton, Oxon.
Death Date: Oct 1957 Kitale
First Date: pre-WW1
Profession: Salesman, Lugari; a well known amateur rider in EA before WW1, he farmed on the Plateau. Returned to EA after WW1. He was a former Chairman of the Eldoret Race Club
Area: Lugari, Kitale
Married: In Reading 1921 Elsie Gladys Chambers b. 11 Apr 1894 Tipton, Staffs., d. 21 Feb 1976 Leicester
Children: Agnes Mary (1921); Richard Walker de Vene (5 Dec 1923 Wantage-19 Oct 1998 W. Australia); Pauline P. (9 Aug 1925 Wantage); Michael (1929 Eldoret)
Book Reference: Hut, Buffalo Barua 2, Gillett, Hut, EA and Rhodesia
War Service: Oxford Yeomanry, RFC
General Information:
Buffalo Barua 2 reports the death of Richard W. Buswell (KR3095) on 19/6/1998, sic, in Western Australia -,his son]
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
East Africa & Rhodesia - 12/12/57 - Mr R.W. Bussell [sic], who has died in Kenya, was a well-known amateur rider in Kenya before the 1914-18 war, in which he served in France in the Oxfordshire Yeomanry and the Royal Flying Corps. He held the Albert Medal for gallantry. He had been chairman of Eldoret Race Club