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Name: ANDERSON, David Laurie
Nee: son of David Anderson
Birth Date: 23 May 1898 Monifieth, Forfar
Death Date: 14 Oct 1957 Nairobi
First Date: 1923
Last Date: 1957
Profession: Farmer
Area: Nanyuki, 1924 Suguroi, Timau
Married: At Nanyuki Sports Club 6 Sep 1930 Sibyl Joicey Davis b. 27.2.1898, d.13.5.1964 (dau of Dr. Robert Davis)
Children: dau. (23 Oct 1932 Nyeri); dau. (4 Oct 1939)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes, Wed
War Service: Black Watch
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 21/11/57 - Mr David Laurie Anderson, who has died suddenly in Kenya, arrived in the Colony in 1923 after having served through the 1914-18 war as a Regular officer in the Black Watch. He began farming on his own account near Timau, and in the last war served with the Uganda Battalion of the KAR in Ethiopia and Somaliland. Latterly he had lived in Nairobi.
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - David Laurie Anderson, British, age 59, died 14/10/57
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List