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Name: WOLSELEY-BOURNE, James Frederick MC (Capt.)
Birth Date: 7 Feb 1878
Death Date: 4 Mar 1941 Westminster, suicide by gunshot in Green Park
First Date: 1912
Profession: KAR, Police, Deputy Commissioner
Area: 1912 Lumbwa, 1925 Mombasa, 1930 Nairobi
Married: 1. Margarita Howat Mathieson b. 22 Feb 1884 Valparaiso, Chile, d. 4 Apr 1972 London (prev. m. Manliffe Francis Goodbody 1869-1916 and Arthur H. James); 2. Helen Mary d. 1950
Book Reference: HBEA, Sitrep 6, Police, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 12, Red 22, Web, Gazette, Dominion, SS, Leader14, A. Allen, Red Book 1912, Red 19
General Information:
Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - Jubaland 1917-18 - This bar was awarded to 5 & 1/6 KAR and No 1 Section 9 (Murree) Mountain Bty. for service under Lt. Col. W.E.H. Barratt (KAR), Maj. E.G.M. Porcelli (DCLI), Capts J.F. Wolseley-Bourne and O. Martin (KAR), in military operations - 1917/18 - against the Northern Aulihan tribe west of the Juba river, or north or east of a line Waregta - Lake Abeleni - Lorian Swamp - El Wak - Dolo.
Police - When Commissioner Spicer left for Palestine, in June 1931, he became Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police and when Lumley retired he became Acting Commissioner of Police until the arrival in October of the new Commissioner R.C.A. Cavendish. Confirmed in the appointment as Deputy Commissioner of Police on Lumley's retirement.
Web - British Perspectives on Aulihan Somali Unrest in the East Africa Protectorate, 1915-18 by George L. Simpson Jr. - 1915 - Receiving anxious reports from the frontier, officials in Nairobi immediately rected by dispatching reinforcements to the north including 50 police under Captain J.F. Wolseley-Bourne. Nevertheless, one must seriously question the determination of the colonial administration when one considers the fact that Wolseley-Bourne was originally under orders to return to the south by the end of January 1916. ….. [much more]
Gazette - 26/8/1914 - Appt. - Captain J.F. Wolseley-Bourne, Staff Officer, Volunteer Forces, East Africa Regiment, to be Captain, (to be graded as an Adjutant), to date August 5th 1914
Dominion - Assistant Commissioner of Police - 1930
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class A - Capt. J.F. Wolseley-Bourne, MC, EA Police, Nairobi - Farm 1235
A. Allen - MC - "In connection with operations in the Wajheir area, Northern Frontier, East Africa Protectorate." - Kenya Gazette 2 Oct 1918
Red Book 1912 - Police Dept. - Assistant Superintendent
Red Book 1919 - Asst. Superintendent of Police
HBEA 1912 - Asst. Superintendent of Police, Lumbwa.
Police - ex SA Constabulary.
Police - Company Commander in the EA Police Service Battalion in 1914.
KAD 1922 - Superintendent of Police, Mombasa
Red Book 1912 - J.F.W. Bourne - Nairobi
Gazette - 6/2/1924 - Voters Register - Mombasa - James Frederick Wolseley Bourne, Superintendent of Police, Mombasa
1939 England and Wales Register living in Wokingham with wife Helen M. b. 8 June 1888, as Deputy Commissioner of Police in Kenya, retired
Derby Evening Telegraph 8 Mar 1941 A Home Guard described at a Westminster inquest today, how while looking for imaginary parachute troops in Green Park he saw a person lying on the ground. He thought he would call his bluff, so he probed him twice in the stomach, but got no reply. The man on the ground was dead, shot through the head with a small pistol. The shot man was found to be James Frederick Wolseley-Bourne, aged 63, retired Deputy Commissioner for Kenya, and a verdict that he had taken his own life while of unsound mind was recorded. It was stated that Mr Wolseley-Bourne had been depressed owing to the death of his wife last year and felt suicide was the only way out.