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Name: LUMSDEN, Edward Roch
Birth Date: 1854 India
Death Date: 24.5.1914 Jinja, typhoid fever
Nationality: British
First Date: 1896
Last Date: 1914
Profession: Uganda Railway accountant - seconded from Govt. of India; Member of proposed EA Volunteer Force 9/10/1896 Mombasa; home leave 1899; Snr. Accountant; Jailed for two years with hard labour 3/10/1900
Area: Mombasa
Married: 1. In Salisbury, Wilts. 13 Dec 1894 Frances Eleanor 'Maydie' Wheeler, b.16.4.1869 Salisbury, Wiltshire, d. 27.5.1900 Nairobi (Nairobi South cem); 2. in England 1909 Sophia Wingrove née Waller b. 1877, d. ?1966 Havering (prev. m. Archie Victor Wingrove 1873-1900)
Children: 1. Edward Reginald 'Reggie' (1896); Francis Mervyn (1898 Salisbury) 2. Nelson Gerald (8 July 1913 Jinja-2007 Surrey)
Book Reference: North, Drumkey, CWGC, Leader14, Mills Railway
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