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Name: CARNEGIE, Robert Murray
Nee: 2nd son of Hon. Robert Francis Carnegie
Birth Date: 3 July 1917 England
Death Date: 18 Dec 1954 Nyeri, air accident
Last Date: 1954
Area: Ngobit
Married: In UK 2 Feb 1949 Pauline Frances Farmer b. 1930 Leicester, d. 10 Dec 1954 Westlands, Nairobi
Children: Ian Francis (1949); Alastair Robert (15 July 1951 Ngobit-2019); Keith Hamilton Peter (22 Oct 1954 UK-1961)
Book Reference: Debrett, Kenton, Sitrep 2, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Bur, Burke, Barnes
War Service: WW2 - Abyssinia Somaliland with EAASC & EAEME and Lieut. KAR in S.E. Asia
School: Kenton College - left 1928 for Wellington College
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 30/12/54 - Mr Robert Murray Carnegie, of Ngobit, second son of the late Major the Hon. R.F. Carnegie and Mrs Carnegie, has died in Kenya from injuries received in an aeroplane accident. His wife had died in Nairobi nine days earlier.
Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Pauline Carnegie, age 27, died 9/12/1954
St. Peter's, Nyeri cemetery - Robert Murray Carnegie, born 3 July 1917, died 19 December 1954, surviving his wife Pauline by ten days - "weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning"
Debrett - Abyssinia and Somaliland 1939-44 with EA Army Service Corps and EAEME, SE Asia 1944-45 as Lieut. KAR. Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 532)
Gazette 18 Jan 1955 probate says he died in district of Nanyuki
Gazette 18 Jan 1955 wife's probate