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Name: HUTCHINS, Cedric Page

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Nee: bro of Ernest Elwyn Hutchins, son of Rev. Arthur George Hutchins, nephew of David Ernest Hutchins

Birth Date: 1895 York

Death Date: 14.11.1917 Mwiti mission, German East Africa

First Date: 1915

Last Date: 1917

Profession: Farmer

Area: Muhoroni, Songhor

Book Reference: Gazette

War Service: 4th KAR

General Information:

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kisumu
Gazette 6/2/1918 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Cedric Page Hutchins, late of Muhoroni who died intestate at Mwiti on 14/11/1917. Applied for by Ernest Elwyn Hutchins of Singidda in occupied GEA.
www.devonremembers.co.uk/content/the-honoured/hutchins-cedric-page: Cedric was born in York to the Reverend Arthur George Hutchins and Eveline Matilda Cooper (Williams). His father worked in various places and died in 1912 in Middlesbrough. His mother seemed to stay in the north until her death in 1941. Cedric followed his older brother Ernest Elwyn Hutchins - who served with East African Mounted Rifles during WW1 - to East Africa. Ernest later retired to Budleigh Salterton in the 1950s after having been a coffee farmer in East Africa.Lt Hutchins was on the Special List, which suggests he was recruited for some specific skills, and it has been recorded that he was attached to the 1st/3rd Battalion of the King’s African Rifles. In WW1, the British fought the Germans in their East African colonies, mostly using troops raised in British colonies. Lt Hutchins is remembered on the Budleigh Salterton War Memorial and the brass plaque in St Peter’s Church, and at the Dar Es Salaam War Memorial in Tanzania, formerly German East Africa.
Buried in Dar es Salaam war cemetery

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