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Name: KIDD, Robert Frederick (Capt.)
Birth Date: 28 May 1895 Tynemouth
Death Date: 19 May 1953 [?1948 Hamburg - Ancestry Family Tree]
First Date: 1921
Profession: 3rd KAR
Area: Gobwen, Jubaland, Nairobi, Mombasa
Married: In Wandsworth 1932 Phyllis Hilda Charlotte Nurse b. 6 Jan 1897, d. 1954 Lambeth
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22
War Service: Devonshire Regt., KAR
General Information:
From Devonshire Regt
26 Sep 1919 admitted to hospital for gunshot wound to right knee
1923 he was a land agent in Mombasa
1928 arrested in Paris for obtaining goods by false pretences
18 May 1931 As manager of Montrose Club, Clapham Common, was charged with theft of £49 - had absconded with the cheque (to cash for wages of employees) to Manchester, where he surrendered himself to police.
1939 England and Wales Register was living in Lambeth with wife, as 'agent on own account'. His wife was a canteen manageress.