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Name: DEWAR, William Ian Thompson
Photo Source: William Cherry
Nee: son of Robert John Dewar
Birth Date: 12 June 1915 Nairobi
Death Date: 19 Aug 1994
Profession: Emigrated to Britain and later S. Africa. Clerk, PWD, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1938. Registrar of Water Rights PWD in 1953
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi Deirdre B. O'Shea b. 14 Oct 1916, d. 1993
Children: Deirdre Gay (b. and d. 16 Feb 1946 Nairobi); Sean W. (25 Feb 1951)
Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Staff 53, Barnes, Sitrep2, mini-Sitrep 4
War Service: Captain in KAR in WW2
General Information:
Source: Roy Douglas Dewar
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Deirdre Gay Dewar, died 16 Feb 1946 aged 1 hour
Early player for Old Cambrians Rugby Club - 1930s
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 36). He recalled RSM Cummings being pushed aside at the Memorial Hall in Nairobi by chaps stampeding to join the Regiment in 1937 when John Garvey was still a colour Sargt.
Ancestry Passenger List 1958 London-Mombasa