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Name: MARTIN, Charles H.

Birth Date: 1857 ?Tywardreath, Cornwall

Death Date: 12.1.1901 Mombasa Hospital, meningitis

First Date: 1899

Last Date: 1901

Profession: Uganda Railway; Simba May 1899

Area: Simba

Book Reference: North, Barnes

General Information:

North - Temporary Railway appt. 18-4-1898; Listed in Establishment Rolls under Engineering Dept.; Permanent Way Inspector 30-6-1899; 3rd PWI with No 1 Maintenance Division based at Voi 21-8-1900; PWI Maintenance Division 30-9-1900; 'The best of my Permanent Way Inspectors … in fact the best PWI on the line …. a big powerful man standing 6 feet 5 inches high but a hard drinker seldom taking less than one bottle of whiskey a day' (W. McGregor-Ross, RH)
Mombasa Cemetery - 12 Jan 1901, C.M. Martin, aged 44, Permanent Way Inspector, European Hospital Kilindini
Gazette - 1-5-1901 - Probate and Administration - late C. Martin deceased who died at Kilindini on 12th day of January 1901.

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