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Name: McCALMAN, Alastair Fernie
Nee: son of Alexander McCalman of Solai, Nakuru
Birth Date: 12.7.1911 Johannesburg
Death Date: 15.3.1996 Poole, Dorset
Nationality: Scottish
First Date: 1937
Profession: Returned after education to farm at Solai
Area: Milton Siding, Solai, Nakuru
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Horizon, mini-SITREP XIV, Kenton
School: Kenton College - left 1928 for Wrekin
General Information:
Horizon - Kenton College - there was a young Scot called McCalman who had a secret store of pine wood ...…
mini-SITREP XIV - letter from Ray Nightingale .......... As you say the Ethiopian Irregulars did a fine job under their British Officers. Alastair McCalman [KR174] wrote an admirable article about their operations for our archives. He was with them from early in the campaign until the Gold Coast battle at Uadara, north of Neghelli, in which he was awarded an immediate MC. The Irregulars were used to search out the Italian flanks and push in outposts. Alastair was then transferred to other operations. David McCalman was with the same unit for a while until he was transferred.
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 174).