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Name: MELVIN-PHILLIPS, Charles Gordon
Birth Date: 18.2.1914 Singapore
Death Date: 6 Feb 1965 Somerset West, S. Africa
First Date: 1937
Profession: Farm assistant; Chief Officer, Prisons Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1938. Superintendent of Prisons in 1953
Area: Nairobi, Nakuru, Sotik
Married: In Nairobi 19 June 1948 Eleanor Elizabeth Margaret Moir b. 27 Sep 1924 Kiambu, d. 21 June 2007 Somerset West, S. Africa (dau of James Taylor Smart Moir)
Children: Patricia Daphne (10 Sep 1949 Nakuru); James Keith Charles (12 Mar 1952 Kenya); Malcolm (16 July 1959 Kenya)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Harmony, Staff 39, Staff 53
General Information:
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 4/12/44, age 30, Prisons Dept., Nairobi
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 303)
Gazette 19 Apr 1960 wife's probate
Langata Cemetery, Nairobi Last Name: PHILLIPS Given Name: Margaret Melvin Birth: Death: 18 Feb 1960 AGED: YR: 72 Inscriptions: in loving memory / of / Margaret Melvin / Phillips / died 18.2.1960 / aged 72 [his mother]