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Name: WYNSTONE-WATERS, Edward John (Capt. Dr.)
Birth Date: 1864 Dunedin, New Zealand
Death Date: 26.8.1918 Nairobi, cerebral haemorrhage
Nationality: British
First Date: 1898
Last Date: 1918
Profession: Medical Officer with the Uganda Railway, he worked in the Uganda Protectorate in 1900 and transferred to the EAP in 1902. War Grave.
Area: Lamu
Married: Marion Elene Godfrey b. 1862, d. 9.10.1926 Limuru
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, North, CWGC, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Carman, Gazette, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Barnes
War Service: EA Medical Service
General Information:
EAHB 1905 - Late Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Lecturer on Surgical anatomy, Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal Physical Society; 3 times medallist in Junior practical, Senior practical, and Senior systematic anatomy; Author of papers on Anatomical and physiological questions; Medical Officer, Uganda Railway May 10th 1898; Uganda Protectorate Dec. 10th 1900; transferred to EAP, March 1902.
North - Uganda Railway - Junior Asst Med. Officer 9/5/1898; Camp Mbarak Feb 1899; Wife arr. Mombasa from Europe - 'seems a dreadful person' (Cooper, RH) 10/5/1899; arr. Nairobi 5/6/1899; Appt. Asst. Med. Officer UP 3/12/1900; Fort Ternan May, June 1901; transferred to EAP; Fort Ternan 31/3/1902; arr. Mombasa from Fort Ternan 7/5/1902, dep. for Lamu next day; Lamu with wife July 1902; MO at Lamu June 1903, 1905; 'Doctors Waters, McCulloch and Macpherson - the trio of drunken garrulous doctors' (F.J. Jackson, FO 2)
CWGC - Captain, East African Medical Service, who died on Monday, 26th August 1918. Nairobi Cemetery, Grave Ref: III D 8
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - East Africa Medical Services - To be Captain - Dr. E. Wynstone Waters
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Carrier Corps - To be Medical Officer - Corps No. 1 Captain E. Wynstone Waters
EA Diary 1903 - Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Lecturer on Surgical Anatomy; Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh; May 10 1898 Medical Officer, Uganda Railway; Dec 10 1900 Medical Officer, Uganda Protectorate
Barnes - Nairobi South Cemetery - E. Wynstone-Waters, died 26 Aug 1918 - Marion Elene Wynstone-Waters is buried at All Saints Church, Limuru
Chandler - In 1899 near Nairobi, Dr Waters went out to shoot some elephant that were raiding native farms. Spotting a large bull, he tried a heart shot at close range with a .577 double. Two huge bullets had no discernible effect on the tusker, and Waters ran for his life. The elephant was just about to grab him with its trunk when Waters disappeared! He had fallen into a Kikuyu game pit. Fortunately for him, the pit wasn't staked at the bottom. The confused elephant stomped around a bit and wandered off. Waters, a bit bruised but otherwise OK, clambered out and, in true frontier style, finished the hunt.
EAHB 1905 - Medical Officer, Lamu
EAHB 1907 - E.W. Waters - Lamu
Red Book 1912 - E.W. Waters - Malindi
Drumkey 1909 - Medical Dept. - Medical Officer
North - forced to resign after an 'indiscretion' July 1908