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Name: BENHAM, John Henry Findlay
Birth Date: 26 Dec 1884 Twickenham
Death Date: 17 Oct 1935 Thika
First Date: 1912
Profession: Farmed in the Chania Bridge district
Area: Chania Bridge district, 1930 Thika
Book Reference: Gillett, Mrs J. Campling, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Red 22, Gazette, Barnes, Red 19
War Service: EAMR in WW1 - J.H.F. Benham - A Sqdn 2/9/14 - 19/11/14
General Information:
Letter from Mrs J. Campling - '.... He was a very large man with a big black beard. He always wore a dark blue stetson and dark blue clothes and a bead belt. Really looked like someone from the Wild West. Not persona grata because he lived with a black woman.
Red 22 - J.M.F. Benham, Samuru Estate, Chania Bridge
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Fort Hall - J.F.B. Benham? - Samuru, Chania Bridge
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - John Benham, British, age 52, died 17/10/35
Red Book 1919 - J H F Benham - Bendor, Chania Bridge
Hut has J.H.T. Benham 1920 Songhor and John M.F. Benham 1912 Bendor Est. Thika
Gazette 26 Nov 1935 probate
From Walberswick, Suffolk