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Name: AYRE, Angelo Douglas
Birth Date: 18 June 1872 Luton
Death Date: 4 Feb 1951 Oxford
First Date: 1907
Last Date: 1919
Profession: Post Office
Area: Entebbe, Nairobi 1909, 1914 Nairobi
Married: Helena Jane Witcomb b. 3 Apr 1881 Hackney, London, d. 1973 Cambridge
Children: Dorothy Maude (8 July 1915 Entebbe)
Book Reference: HBEA, KAD, Drumkey, Red 22, Gazette, EASC, Leader14, Colonial, Red Book 1912, Red 19
General Information:
Drumkey 1909 - Post & Telegraph Dept. - 1st Class Postmaster, Nairobi
Red 22 - Deputy PMG, Dar es Salaam
Gazette - 22/4/14 - Angelo Douglas Ayre - appt. Asst. PMG
EASC Vol 8 pp 295/6 - 1917 - creating Tanganyika's postal service - telegram from Horace Byatt to Colonial Office 24/2/17 - " …. Propose asking Government of East African Protectorate second Ayre [Mr A.A. Ayre]. Assistant Postmaster General to commence organisation of postal service here. ……. There is no doubt that Mr Ayre arrived from Nairobi and that work on planning the implementation of the civilian postal service went ahead. ……… Mr Ayre was to transfer permanently as Superintendent of Posts on 1 June 1917.
Colonial 1912 - First Class Postmaster - A.D. Ayre
Red Book 1912 - Post Office - First Class Postmaster - Entebbe
Gazette 1/11/1907 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Postmaster - 11/9/1907
Gazette 3/3/1920 - Transferred to Tanganyika as PMG
Red Book 1919 - A D Ayre - Assist. PMG - Nairobi
Red Book 1919 - Post Office & Telegraph Dept. - Asst. Postmaster-General
HBEA 1912 - 1st Class Postmaster, Entebbe.
KAD 1922 has A. Ayre, P.O. Embu
1939 England and Wales Register living in Northam, Devon, with wife