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Name: DOBSON, Robert Lawrence Archer
Nee: son of John James Dobson
Birth Date: 16 Nov 1920 Belfast
Death Date: 9 Oct 1958 Nairobi
First Date: 1937
Profession: Apprentice, PWD, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1939. Originally learner 1938
Area: Nairobi, Box 783
Married: In Nairobi 18 Feb 1950 Kathleen Mary Dunstan Adams b. 10 June 1926 Nairobi, d. Mar 2013 Seavington, Somerset (dau. of Alfred Dunstan Adams)
Children: Rowena Mary (Turner) (18 Sep 1951)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Kenton, Nation, Staff 53
School: Kenton College - left 1933 for Wellington School, Somerset
General Information:
Staff 53 - DO Kakamega, appointed T.A.O. 25-4-1952
Langata cemetery, Nairobi in proud / and / treasured memory / Robert Lawrence Archer / Dobson, d. 9 Oct 1958 Nairobi
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 489).
Gazette 23 Dec 1952 he wants probate for Marie Florence Gwendoline Dobson who d. Limuru 7 Dec 1952 (his mother).
Gazette 7 Apr 1959 probate
Had Royal Aero Club Aviator's certificate
What's a regular soldier in the dragoon guards with fluent Arabic and Swahili. To Kenya and entered KAR. In administration in NFD, Kilifi, Embu as a DC. Transferred to Foreign Office but died before he could join his post in Tristan de Cunha. His wife was librarian at Macmillan Library Nairobi and also at the Coryndon Museum.