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Name: MAY, Edward Knight David
Birth Date: 14.1.1872 Lahore, India
Death Date: 11.1.1940 London
Nationality: British
First Date: 1895
Profession: Chief Officer s.s. Juba 1896, Act. Comm. 1900, Commr. s.s. W. Mackinnon 1902.
Area: Uganda
Married: In Penzance 1908 Elizabeth Young Uren b. 1886 Penzance, d. 1959 Bodmin
Children: Bessie Kate Uren (1 Aug 1909 Penzance-1978)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, Red 25, EAS, Hut, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, Gazette, EAHB 1904
War Service: Pilot on Govt ships
General Information:
EAHB 1905 - Chief Officer, Protectorate S.S. Juba, Feb. 13th 1896; Sub-Lieut. R.N. June 28th 1898; Acting Commander, S.S. Juba May to Dec. 1900; Commander S.S. William Mackinnon, Uganda Protectorate, July to October 1902; Acting Commander, S.S. Juba, May to Dec., 1903
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - Member of proposed EA Volunteer Force 9/10/1896 Mombasa; leave Dec 1897; leave June 1899; Acting Commander from 25/5/1900 while Capt. William Wilson on leave; home leave 1901; dep. Mombasa for Kisumu to be Commander of s.s.Wm. Mackinnon 24/7/1902
EAHB 1906 - Transferred in 1905 to Zanzibar
Gazette - Issued with Bird Licence at Mombasa during semester ending 30/6/1902
EAHB 1905 - Chief Officer s.s. Juba.
Red 25 has Capt. May, 'Seaborne', Limuru.
Masters and Mates' certificate 3 Dec 1897
1939 England and Wales Register living in Wembley with wife