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Name: LAWSON-WALTON, John Erskine
Nee: son of John Lawson Walton and (Dame) Joanna McNeilage
Birth Date: 11.9.1885 Kensington
Death Date: 31.12.1919 Nairobi, gunshot wound in head
First Date: 1909
Last Date: 1919
Profession: Private Secretary to HE the Governor in 1912
Area: Nairobi, Meru
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, CWGC, Barnes, SS, Gazette, Red 1912
War Service: Temp. Capt. KAR
General Information:
CWGC - Nairobi (Forest Road) Cemetery - Captain J.E. Lawson-Walton (New Armies), General List attd. 4th King's African Rifles. 31st December 1919. Block 6, Grave 29.
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - J.E. Lawson-Walton. Inscription:J E Lawson-Walton / Temp Capt / Kings African Rifles / born 11th Sept 1885 / died 31st Dec 1919 / requiescat in pace
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. J.E. Lawson Walton, Coombe Hill, Butters Cross, Bucks. - Farm 203 - Representative J. McRae, Barrister, Nairobi
Red Book 1912 - J.E.L. Walton - Meru - Kenya Province - Asst. DC at Meru
Gazette 1/6/1910 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Dist. Commr. - 7/5/1910
Red Book 1912 - J.E.L. Walton - Meru
Gazette 7/7/1920 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of John Erskine Lawson Walton late of Nairobi who died at Nairobi on 31/12/1919. Applied for by Angus Fraser Macrae of Nairobi.
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death - says he had been 2 weeks in EAP.
Nat Probate Calendar