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Name: BARWELL, Cyril Walter MBE
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1910 Porthcurno, Penzance
Death Date: 29 Apr 1977 Hendon
First Date: 1937
Profession: Agric. officer, farmer
Area: Kericho, Kakamega, Sotik
Married: 1. Gladys May b. 1913, d. 12.2.1944 sinking of SS Kedive Ismail, nurse, on active service; 2. Margaret b. 17 Nov 1906
Children: Norman (8 Mar 1947)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, CWGC
War Service: Military service 1939-45, KAR
School: Christ's Hospital and Seale-Hayne Agricultural College
General Information:
Colonial - Asst. agricultural officer Kenya 1949; Agricultural Officer 1955; Principal Bukura Farmers Training Centre, Kakamega 1958-65
East Africa & Rhodesia - 12/1/56 - MBE
CWGC - East Africa Memorial - Sister G[ladys] M[ay] Barwell EDCC/360. East African Military Nursing Service, lost in SS Khedive Ismail, 12th February 1944. Wife of C. Barwell, of Kericho
Hut has Cyril Barwell married to Midge Lanyon, Kericho, Agricultural Dept., went to Bukura
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 671).
Gazette 20 Mar 1945 probate for Mrs Gladys May Barwell (died on Khedive Ismail)
East African Forces Register of Deaths in WW2 for 1st wife's death