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Name: SOUTHEY, Ruth Lorraine, Miss
Nee: dau. of Maurice Edward and Evelyn Southey
Birth Date: 27 Apr 1919 Farm 70, Eldoret
Death Date: 12 Feb 1941 Nairobi, car accident on active service in Women's Territorial Service
First Date: 1939
Last Date: 1941
Profession: Clerk, Printing & Stationery Dept., in 1939, appointed 1939.
Area: Nairobi
Married: No
Book Reference: Staff 39, CWGC, Barnes, Campling, Gazette
General Information:
CWGC - Nairobi (Forest Road) Cemetery - Driver R.L. Southey, K/183. Women's Territorial Service (East Africa). 12th February 1941. Block 16. Grave 84.
FindaGrave (war grave) Driver Ruth Lorraine Southey Birth 27 Apr 1919 Eldoret, Uasin Gishu, Kenya Death 12 Feb 1941 (aged 21) Kenya Burial Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Plot Block 16. Grave 84. Memorial ID 22746325. A Driver with the Women's Territorial Service (East Africa). Service Number: K/183.
Campling - Outspan Hotel - Another pretty girl to work as receptionist was Ruth Southey, who was still there when Keith [Campling] left Nyeri at outbreak of war in 1939; he heard later that she contracted meningitis and died during the early years of the war.
Gazette 15 Apr 1941 probate required by Evelyn Southey of Eldoret