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Name: MAXWELL, Frank Osborne (Major)

Birth Date: 2.12.1867 Bethnal Green

Death Date: 28.8.1941 Bridge, Kent

First Date: 1930

Profession: Salvation Army

Area: Nairobi

Married: 1 Beatrice Bussey 2. In Bombay 23 Oct 1924 Daisy Mary Thorneb. 13 May 1882 (she was Canadian, a schoolteacher from Newfoundland)

Book Reference: Red 31

General Information:

Ancestry After mother's death lived with grandparents outside Londonderry. Won cycle races and ran a cycle business. Became Salv. Army officer in 1903 and travelled extensively in India and Africa. Invented a weaving loom. Retired to England 1932 and built a bungalow in Herne Bay. In WW2 distributed clothing to air-raid victims. Knocked off his bike when returning and died a few hours later.

1939 England and Wales Register living in Brighton with wife

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