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Name: SETH-SMITH, Martin Philip

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Nee: son of Martin Seth Smith of Colwood, Sussex, bro of Donald Farquharson Seth-Smith

Birth Date: 20.2.1880 Bolney, Sussex

Death Date: 4.10.1922 Nyeri

First Date: 1903

Last Date: 1922

Profession: Farmer

Area: W. Kenya, 1925 Mumias, 1922 Naro Moru

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Land, Gazette, Burke, Leader14, Web, Chandler, mini-SITREP XXXIII, Barnes

War Service: served in WW1 as Capt. KAR

School: Charterhouse

General Information:

Land - 1908 - Martin Seth-Smith - Grazing, 5000 acres, Thika River, 10-12-07, Registered 9-10-08
Gazette - 26/8/1914 - Appt. - M.P. Seth-Smith to be employed in the Intelligence Department with the rank of Lieutenant, to date August 5th 1914
Gazette - 11/8/1915 - Appt. - Intelligance Department - To be Captain - Lieut. Martin Philip Seth-Smith
Burke - traveller, game warden and natural history colector in Uganda and BEA
Leader14 - Horse Show (Nairobi) - Joint Secretary
mini-SITREP XXXIII - Legion of Frontiersmen - 1912 - Intelligence Officer
Red 25 - Assistant Game Ranger 1914-18
Gazette - 27/12/1922 - Probate and Administration - Martin Philip Seth-Smith, late of Nyeri, who died at Nyeri on 4 October 1922. Applied for by George Hammond Goldfinch and Arthur Blayney Percival
Barnes Nyeri cem Martin Philip Seth-Smith 1880-1922

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