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Name: SALMON, Thomas Roope Pomeroy

Birth Date: 5.7.1904 Thornbury, Glos.

Death Date: 20.5.1983 Blyth, Suffolk

First Date: 1930

Profession: Game Ranger, farmer

Area: Nyeri, Nanyuki, Kerugoya, Timau

Married: 1. In Northampton 1930 Mary Emily Long b. 29 Nov 1904 Bugbrooke, Northants., d. 1996 Northampton; 2. Violet Ursula Pomeroy b. 9 June 1911, d. 21 Mar 1976 Southwold

Children: Mamie Ursula (1949)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Red 31, Hut, Baptism, Foster, Bartlett

School: Clifton College

General Information:

Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Bartlett - Tom Salmon, another family friend, gave us our first .22 rifle, which we used to good effect. He was also a very fine rifle shot and often took us hunting on his farm which was next to ours.
Farmer.  On leaving Kenya for good sold his farm to J.F. Sherrard - Timau, 'Kabau' sold to Sherrard
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List with Mary Emily
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 725).
Gazette 24 Dec 1976 wife's probate
 

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