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Name: OWEN, Wessel Michael Smuts

Birth Date: 24 Oct 1884 Uitenhage, S. Africa

Death Date: 6 Aug 1916 Nairobi, dilatation of heart following malarial fever

Last Date: 1916

Profession: Driver; mechanical engineer

Married: In Uitenhage 10 July 1915 Susan Violet Pote b. 1882, d. 1957

Book Reference: CWGC, Gazette, Barnes

War Service: EA Mch Transport Corps

General Information:

CWGC - Nairobi South Cemetery - Driver Wessel Michael Smuts Owen, 2104, East African Mechanical Transport Corps. 6th August 1916. Age 31. Son of J. and the late C. Owen; husband of S. Owen, of 3, Bishop St., Uitenhage, Cape Province.
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death
S. African death cert says he d. on 5 Aug.
Son of Charles and Johanna Dorothea Owen, of Church Street, Uitenhage. Husband of Susan Violet Owen, of 3, Bishop Street, Uitenhage, Cape Province. Born Uitenhage. A mechanical engineer

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