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Name: SALKELD, Robert Edward FRGS (Col.)
Birth Date: 26.8.1873 Bareilly, India
Death Date: 30.1.1927 Blandford, Dorset
Nationality: British
First Date: 1902
Last Date: 1927
Profession: Provincial Commissioner
Area: 1912 DC Kismayu, 1922 Kismayu
Married: In York 17.11.1909 Cecilia Mary Barstow b.23 Nov 1875 Alighur, India, d. 17 Oct 1941 Blandford
Book Reference: HBEA, Moyse, Lorian, EAHB 1905, KAD, Hut, North, Playne, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, Web, EAS, EAHB 1906, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, SS, Leader14, Red 19
War Service: Oxfordshire LI/ISC
General Information:
Lorian - PC - Jubaland until the handover to Italy in 1926 - there was one Asst. Commissioner ..... who was in charge of the Gosha District ........ a few police under a white officer, a garrison of the KAR under two officers - one at Gobwein on the Coast, and the other at Serenli, 300 miles up the Juba river - Capt. Salkeld had to administer an area of about 10,000 sq. miles. This area is about as big as the rest of Kenya Colony, ......... Kismayu - the main town and Administrative HQ of Jubaland.
EAHB 1905 - 3rd KAR, Kismayu
KAD 1922 - District and Resident Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Kismayu.
KAD 1922 - President, Jubaland Club, Kismayu
North - Ogaden Punitive Force Jubaland, arr. Kismayu 21/1/1901; Appt. Acting Collector Kismayu District 26/5/1902
Playne - '....... A cup has lately been presented by Captain Salkeld and other Jubaland officials, which is to be run for by ponies bred in the country. These ponies are not by any means beneath contempt, and, owing to their qualities of endurance, are most useful servants to settlers in EA. .…
Drumkey 1909 - District Commissioner 1907; Oxford L.I.; Company Commander, 3rd KAR; Collector, EAP, Jan 12th 1906
Red 22 - President, Jubaland Club, Kismayu
Web - British Perspectives on Aulihan Somali Unrest in the East Africa Protectorate, 1915-18 by George L. Simpson Jr. - Captain R.E. Salkeld, a British officer in Jubaland who subsequently became the PC …
EAS - 15/1/1903 - Capt. Salkeld arrived by SS Juba and has gone to Nairobi for a change
EAS - 29/1/1903 - Nairobi Races - We hope to see Capt. Salkeld and Mr G. Ellis riding again as the sporting spirit is in them and they are good jocks.
EAHB 1906 - Operations on NW Frontier of India 1897-8; With Mohmand Field and Tirah Expedition Forces, Medal with 2 clasps; British East Africa 1901; Operations against the Ogaden Somalis in Jubaland, Medal with clasp.
EA Diary 1902 - Captain - The East Africa Rifles - 1901
EAHB 1907 - Collector, Jubaland
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major R.E. Salkeld, Stour House, Blandford, Dorset - Farm 1002 - Representative, Major R.E. Salkeld, c/o Secretariat, Nairobi
Gazette - 13/9/1927 - Probate and Administration - Robert Edward Salkeld late of Stour House, Bandford, Dorset who died at Stour House on 30 January 1927
Moyse - Oxf. Lt. Inf. - late 1905 - acting sub-commissioner and O.C. Troops Jubaland.