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Name: MORTIMER, Leonard Charles
Nee: son of Charles Edward Mortimer
Birth Date: 31.8.1917 Nairobi
Death Date: 1982 Brisbane, Australia
First Date: 1934
Profession: Clerk, Mining & Geological Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1935. Originally Learner 1934. DO at Kakamega in 1953
Area: Nairobi, Kakamega
Married: In Nairobi 24 June 1941 Joan Olivia Waitt Preston b. 6 July 1918 Bournemouth, d. 17 Mar 2018 Brisbane, Australia
Children: Adrian John (5.8.1946); Stephen Richard (15.6.1949)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, Barnes
School: Prince of Wales School, Nairobi
General Information:
Colonial - DO 1950; Ch. Estab. Officer 1961-64
Early player for Old Cambrians Rugby Club - 1930s - Len Mortimer
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 88).
Blue Book 1946 still a Grade 1 clerk in the Mines Division
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for birth