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Name: SAYER, Humphrey DSO, MC (Capt.)
Photo Source: Phil Toye
Nee: bro of Alfred Carlisle Sayer
Birth Date: 1889 St Leonards on Sea
First Date: 1920
Last Date: 1944
Profession: Farmer
Area: 'Senetwa' Songhor, Molo
Married: 1922 Ethel May Hopley (dau of Col. Frederick Rice Hamilton Hopley of Nairobi) She later m. Richard Ussher and d. 5 July 1933 in an aeroplane accident with him at Mbeya, Tanganyika
Children: Bertram Humphrey (1923 Kenya -10 June 1944 on active service)
Book Reference: KAD, Debrett, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Racing, DSO, SS, Gazette
War Service: Capt. Sussex Yeomanry (Reserve); European War 1914-19 (despatches, MC, DSO)
General Information:
Racing - Owner of 'Chinaman' - 1929
Racing - Owner of 'First Venture' - 1929
Racing - Owner of 'Resister' - 1929
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major H. Sayer, DSO, MC, Yew Tree House, Westfield, Battle, Sussex - Farm 946
Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - (Captain) Humphrey Sayer - Farmer, Senetwa - Songhor
Lt. Humphrey Sayer, Royal Arillery, birthplace Kenya, d. 10 June 1944 - Army Roll of Honour [son]. CWGC in St Charles de Percy War Cem. Calvados, France