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Name: BROMLEY, Hugh
Photo Source: W.A. Kempe photo album
Birth Date: 21.5.1877 Hammersmith, London
Death Date: 29.9.1906 Mombasa, blackwater fever
Nationality: British
First Date: 1901
Last Date: 1906
Profession: Audit officer
Area: Mombasa
Book Reference: Gillett, Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, Gazette, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, Barnes
School: St. Paul's School
General Information:
North - Detached Audit Officer with the Colonial Audit Branch of the Exchequer and Audit Dept.; Appt. Asst. Auditor EAP, 9-11-1901; due to dep. England for EA 9-11-1901; arr. Mombasa 30-11-1901; Issued with Public Officer's Game Licence 23-8-1903, Mombasa
Gazette - Issued with Bird Licence at Mombasa during semester ending 30/6/1902
North - Buried at Mbaraki
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as Assistant Auditor
EA Diary 1903 - Assistant Auditor, EA Protectorate, Nov 9 1901
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - 29 Sep 1906, Hugh Bromley, Asst. Auditor, aged 29, European Hospital, blackwater fever
EAHB 1905 - Assistant Auditor, EAP, Nov 9th 1901; detached for service in Somaliland May to August 1903.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
Gazette - 15-10-1906 - Probate and Administration - Hugh Bromley deceased who died at Mombasa on the 29th day of September 1906
Mombasa Cathedral plaque: sacred to the memory / of / Hugh Bromley / Assistant Auditor East Africa / Protectorate who died at Mombasa / on the 29th September 1906 / aged 29 years / this tablet was erected by / his brother officers as a token / of their regard and esteem.
W.A. Kempe Diary 19 Oct 1905 One of the Goanese clerks from Audit office came on board & conducted me to Bromley’s bungalow, where I am to live, by trolley. Bromley in hospital with blackwater fever & blood poisoning due to foolish way he goes off on safari & sleeps in the open, leaving me alone in the office in charge.