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Name: TOMES, Janet 'Jean' Carmichael, Mrs
Nee: McKinlay, dau. of John Jones and Coila McKinlay
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1919 Nairobi
Death Date: 2 Oct 2014 Laidley, Churchill, Queensland, Australia
First Date: 1919
Last Date: 1963
Profession: Housewife
Area: Nairobi, Karen
Married: 1. In Nairobi 5 June 1943 James Donald Wroe (1901-1966); 2. 1970 Eric Tomes d. 1989
Children: John Kenneth (1944); Joan Muriel; Margaret Bertha
Book Reference: EAWL, Childhood
War Service: St. John's Ambulance
School: Kenya High School 1927-37
General Information:
Childhood - After school I went in 1937 to the Adelphi College in Hardinge Street to study Shorthand, Typing and Bookkeeping. I also joined St. John's Ambulance and later became an officer. When war broke out I nursed at weekends at the Military Hospital which was on the old Show Ground on the Kabete Road.
Later went to Painland, Queensland, Australia