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Name: STAINBANK, Edward Lloyd (Capt. RE)
Birth Date: 27 May 1889 S. Africa
Death Date: 5 Apr 1866 Letchworth
First Date: 1921
Last Date: 1924
Profession: Civil engineer
Area: Kilindini
Married: At Clacton on Sea 2 June 1919 Ellen Gertrude 'Nellie' Raymond b. 11 June 1883 Alnwick, d. 10 June 1970 Letchworth
Children: John Edward (24 Apr 1920 Kenya-1973); Richard Edmund (1924 Kent-12 Sep 1944 France)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 22, Web, Gazette
School: St. Edward's School, Oxford; King's College School, Wimbledon and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering
General Information:
Web DNW - Served before the war as a Civil Engineer in India. In the war he enlisted in the Universities and Public Schools Brigade and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in March 1915. He proceeded to Malta in July 1915, attached to the 2/1st City of London Regt. And in August he was ordered to Mudros serving under the Director of Works. In January 1916 he was transferred to Egypt and ended the war as a Captain. Postwar , he was an Assistant Engineer on the Uganda Railway, 1921-24, and was later employed with the railways in Spain, flood protection in Greece, and from 1934, with the Kent Rivers Catchment Board.
Gazette 8/6/1921 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Engineer, Uganda Railway - 27/5/1921
KAD 1922 - Assistant Engineer, Uganda Railway
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Tonbridge