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Name: O'SHEA, Desmond Bernard
Nee: son of James Jeremiah O'Shea
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1901 Dorchester, Dorset
Death Date: 15 Feb 1974 La Palma, Tenerife
First Date: 1938
Last Date: 1948
Profession: Mechanical engineer. Asst. Engineer, Colonial Development Fund, Water Supplies Scheme for Native Reserves, PWD, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1938
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Westminster 5 Nov 1928 Eloise Mary Violet Pardo b. 1906 Paris, d. Whittlesford, Cambs.
Children: son
Book Reference: Staff 39, Colonial
War Service: Military service 1940-45, Major
School: Stonyhurst Coll. and Pembroke College Cambridge; MA (Cantab), ASSOC.M.INST.C.E., A.M.INST.MUN.&CTY.E., AMI.MECH.E
General Information:
Colonial - Exec. Engnr. Grade I 1946; DDPW N. Borneo 1948; Nyasaland 1949
Blue Book 1939 1st appt 15.1.1938