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Name: CLIFFORD, Richard Guy (Lieut.)
Birth Date: 1905 Trim, Ireland
Death Date: 4 May 1941 killed in action, Uaddara, Ethiopia
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1941
Profession: Farmer, Nanyuki
Area: Miwani, Gilgil
Married: Evelyn Margaret Clifford Clarke b. 10 Jan 1908, d. 31 July 1983 Nottingham (m. in Gilgil 1943 Peter Hargreaves Duckle Wraith1910-1982)
Children: Michael Harold (27 Oct 1934 Nyeri); Anthony Denys (1934); dau (28 Sep 1941 Nanyuki)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Red 31, Hut, CWGC, Wed, mini-Sitrep XXXII
War Service: RAC, EAAC
General Information:
CWGC - Nairobi War Cemetery, Plot 2 G 39
CWGC - Richard Guy Clifford, Lieutenant 348840 Royal Armoured Corps attd., EA Armoured Corps who died on Sunday, 4th May 1941. Age 36. Son of Henry Lynes Clifford and Anna Alexandra Clifford
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 726). No birthdate in KR records.
East African Forces Register of Deaths in WW2
Tom Lawrence: Son of Henry Lynes Clifford and Anna Alexandra Clifford; husband of Evelyn Margaret Clifford, of Gilgil (CWGC Website). He made Land Applications in mid-1938 for the following: i) 1549/R2394 5,000 acres 1549/2396, ii) for 4,700 acres both on the Ewaso Nyiro and iii) LR 5162 in Mukogodo East for 6,000 acres (The Official Gazette, 16th Aug 1938, p. 1094). As per Govt. Notice No. 81, he passed the oral of his ‘Lower Standard Swahili Examination held on 8th & 9th Jan 1941 at the School of Instruction. The results were announced on 24th Jan 1941.