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Name: LLEWELLYN, Evan Henry DSO (Brig.-General)

Birth Date: 31 July 1871 Sarre, Torquay

Death Date: 19 Oct 1948 Totnes

First Date: 1907

Profession: Soldier, Commandant of KAR Nairobi 1917. Campaign against the Mad Mullah - with 200 rifles of 2 KAR at Battle of Jidbali 10/1/1904 - Major F.B. Young wounded and his adjutant Capt. E.H. Llewellyn

Area: Nairobi, Somaliland Expedition 1902-04

Married: In Uckfield 1913 Clara Maude Ross MBE b. 11 Dec 1890 Beccles, d. 1967 Fakenham (she div. Sir William Henry Manning in 1913 to marry Llewellyn)

Children: Llewellyn Ross (21 Mar 1916 Totnes-1988); Zelie Vivienne (13 Dec 1918 Nairobi-1999); Arthur David George (1922 Totnes); another

Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, Cranworth, Debrett, Drumkey, DSO, LG, Red 19, Golf

War Service: 2nd Central Africa Regt. & 2/KAR from 1901-11, SA War

School: Wellington College & Sandhurst

General Information:

Debrett - an Hon. Brig.-Gen. and a JP for Devon; S. Africa 1901 (Queen's medal with clasp), Somaliland 1902-4 (despatches, medal with 2 clasps), European War 1916-18 as Brig.-Gen. (despatches, DSO, Brevet Lieut.-Col.); was Comdt. King's African Rifles 1916-19
Red Book 1919 - Nairobi Golf Club - Captain - General Llewellyn, DSO
Captain of Nairobi Golf Club in 1918

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