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Name: TONGUE, Eric Dauncey OBE

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Birth Date: 1891 Whitchurch, Shropshire

Death Date: 2 Apr 1949 Ndaragua

First Date: 1913

Last Date: 1947

Profession: Joined Uganda Admin. Service, served in various provinces of the Protectorate and from 1921-24 established a new station at Tororo. Became DC at Entebbe, Kampala and Bunyoro

Area: Entebbe, Kampala, Bunyoro, Tororo

Married: In Torquay 1921 Enid Elizabeth Malet-Veale b. 17 Nov 1893 Koude River, Cape Colony, d. 31 May 1957 Newton Abbot

Children: Jocelyn Florence Malet (McDowall) (9 July 1922-2001 Taunton); Mavis Betty Eleanor Malet (Stone) (14 Feb 1924 Thomson's Falls-1999 Taunton)

Book Reference: Gillett, EAWL, Colonial, Uganda Staff

School: Taunton School, Emmanuel College Cambridge; BA, LLB

General Information:

ADC, DC & PC - lastly working as Commissioner for Polish Refugees & Commissioner on Special Duties in Kampala. Source: Mrs I. McDowell
Colonial - PC 1937
Keen sportsman, Sec. of Uganda Kobs

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