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Name: WILKINSON-GUILLEMARD, James Henry

Birth Date: 6 Aug 1913 Summerland, Brit. Columbia, Canada

Death Date: 10 Apr 1983 Chideock, Dorset

First Date: 1936

Last Date: 1981

Profession: KAR, joined Charles Russell, Law Firm in London; joined Daly & Figgis, Nairobi as a partner in 1936 and was with them until 1981. Became a Judge in Kenya in 1980 but retired due to ill health, in 1981, to Dorset

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Chideock Manor chapel 5 Sep 1939 Denise Yseult Mary de la Poer b. 2 Feb 1919 Kilsheelan, Tipperary, d. 2011 Clonmel, Tipperary

Children: Rosemary (Daniel) (19 Dec 1940 Nairobi); Geoffrey de la Poer ( 24 Sep 1942 Nairobi-1982 Clonmel); Veronica (Molloy) (1944 Nairobi); Anne Mary (McClintock) (21 Feb 1946 Chideock-17 Nov 2011 Harold's Cross, Dublin); Peter John Hugh (30 Jan 1948 Nairobi-17 Nov 1980 South Yarra, Vic., Australia); Christopher Paul (1952 Nairobi)

Book Reference: EAWL, Gazette; Sitrep 2; J.H. Wilkinson-Guillemard, Haidhuru, 1981

War Service: WW2 with KAR in Somaliland and Burma. Won MC

School: St Cross, Winchester, Stonyhurst College

General Information:

Son Geoffrey died in 1982 and Peter died in 1981. Paul was resident Kenya - Managing Director Total Solar then Gestetner. Source: Mrs R.D. Daniel

Gazette 1 Mar 1985 probate

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 125)

Info from High Casement: He took the additional name Guillemard (his grandmother's maiden name) in 1979

KR 125 - joined Kenya Regiment in 1937 on its formation.

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