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Name: BROMHEAD, Walter Sidney
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1872 Bristol
Death Date: 24 July 1944 Cammeray, Australia
First Date: 1912
Profession: Farmer, journalist
Area: Box 489, Nairobi, 1922 Rumuruti
Married: In Wandsworth 1905 Avis Lettice Harrison b. 1879 Slaugham, Sussex, d. East Grinstead 25 Apr 1963. She ran Adelphi Business School in 30s and 40s, left Kenya 1956
Children: Mavis Jean (25 May 1905 Battersea-2002 Nairobi) (Fox, later Mrs Clarence Buxton); Ralph Sidney (22 Dec 1906 Hanwell-1984; Alice Marie (27 Sep 1908 Brentford-1994); Beatrice Ella (12 July 1913 Camberwell-2002)
Author: 'What's What in the Kenya Highlands'
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Mervyn Fox, Red 22, Medals, Web, Red 19
General Information:
Mervyn Fox - Farmed at Mbagathi and worked for 'The Leader'. Eventually left Kenya and went to Australia
Medals - East Africa Veterinary Corps - No. 5069, Corporal
Red Book 1919 - W S Bromhead
Red Book 1919 - Ex-War Service Federation, Nairobi - Hon. Secretary - W.S. Bromhead
KAD 1922 - On Committee of Dagoretti Settlers' Association
Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Avis L. Bromhead, Married woman, Albert House, Nbi