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Name: STRAHAN, Kenneth Cyprian CBE
Birth Date: 31 Mar 1880 Alvescot, Oxon.
Death Date: 3 Apr 1959 Nairobi
First Date: 1938
Profession: Chief Mechanical Engineer, Kenya and Uganda Railway 1938
Area: 'Kinsa', Kitale, 1922 Dar es Salaam
Married: In Eltham 4 Aug 1915 Mary Evelyn Kirby b. 1 Oct 1887 Lewisham, d. 18 Feb 1970 S. Africa
Children: Pamela (21 Sep 1917 Chelsea); Frances (1918)
Book Reference: Permanent Way, Debrett, Red 22, O&C, Alumni
War Service: RASC
School: King's School Canterbury and King's College, Cambridge 1899-1900
General Information:
Debrett - was with Ceylon Govt. Railways 1908-15; appointed Ch. Mechanical Engineer of Tanganyika Railways 1920, and of Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours 1930; European War 1915-19 as Capt. RASC Mechanical Transport (despatches); is an O.St.J. Alumni - Joined the South-Eastern Railway Company 1901. With the Ceylon Govt. Railways 1908; served in the Great War 1914-19 (RASC, MT) Chief Mechanical Engineer, Tanganyika Railways 1920; Chief Mechanical Engineer, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours 1930-38
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List, Nbi
Gazette 14 July 1959 probate
Cambridge Univ Alumni Adm. at KING'S, Sept. 30, 1899. [S. of Henry (above). B. Mar. 31, 1880. School, King's, Canterbury.] p2='Matriculation: the formal admission of a student into the University as distinguished from his admission into a College. It occurred in each of the three terms, Lent, Easter, Michaelmas.';//-->Matric. Michs. 1899. Joined the South-Eastern Railway Company, 1901. With the Ceylon Govt. Railways, 1908. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (R.A.S.C.; M.T.). Chief Mechanical Engineer, Tanganyika Railways, 1920; Chief Mechanical Engineer, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours, 1930-8. Of Kinsa, Kitale, Kenya, in 1952. (Who's Who.)