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Name: CURLE, Alexander Tancred MBE (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 18 Feb 1900 Edinburgh
First Date: 1925
Profession: Served with 3 KAR between 1923-28
Area: Gobwen
Married: In Brompton, London 24 Nov 1930 Frances Cecil Gift Gillespie Baillie b. 24 Nov 1903 Kensington, London, d. 15 Mar 1986 Uckfield
Children: ?joan (1923); ?Desnay (1927)
Author: Letters from the Horn of Africa 1923-1942 : Sandy Curle, soldier and diplomat extraordinary (ed. Christian Curle), Barnsley 2008. Sandy Curle: letters home from liberated Ethiopia, 1941-1945 (ed. Christian Curle), London 2021
Book Reference: Rhino Link 3, Red 25
General Information:
Became Commisiioner, Somaliland by 1930
Marion Firn: Sandy Curle joined the King's Africn Rifles in 1923, when he was 23 years old. He found himself in remotest Jubaland in sole charge and the only European for miles. Later he served in Kenya and undertook numerous military expeditions. In 1935 he became a District Officer in Tanganyika. He built his reputation fighting in Abyssinia, and training a battalion of Abyssinian irregulars in Kenya which then went on to recapture Abyssinia in World War 2. His letters home to Scotland are ISBN 978 1 84415 845 4 published by Pen & Sword Books Limited
Imperial War Museum: British officer served with 3rd (Kenya) Bn King's African Rifles in British Somaliland and Kenya 1923-1929; served with Colonial Administrative Service in Ethiopia and British Somaliland, 1930-1935; served as District Commissioner with Colonial Administrative Service in Tanganyika, 1935-1939; served with King's African Rifles in Kenya and British Somaliland, 9/1939-8/1940; commanded 2nd Ethiopian Irregulars (Curle's Irregulars) in Kenya and Ethiopia, 1940-1941; served adviser with External Affairs Department, Colonial Administrative Service to Ethiopian Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1942-1946