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Name: STRATTON, Frank Cecil George TD (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 13 Nov 1886 Mortlake
Death Date: 18 Sep 1963 Mombasa
First Date: 1926
Last Date: 1963
Profession: Lawyer, Kaplan & Stratton; Member of Kenya Golfing Society; Kenya Rifle Association; Partner in Delaney & Stratton 1926-38; Kaplan & Stratton 1938-57.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Turnham Green, London 19 Oct 1914 Norah Mary Robinson b. 1886, d. 12 Jan 1958 Nairobi; 2. Evaline Bessie Montague Sandy b. 1894 Ashfield, NSW, Australia, d. 1976 (prev. m. to Leone Sebastiano D. C. H. Galton-Fenzi 1881-1937 and Harold Robert Montgomery 1884-1958)
Children: Anthea Mary de Fontaine (Fyler) (1920); Francis de Fontaine (1923-2008)
Book Reference: EAWL, Red 31, Karen 50, Pembroke, EA & Rhodesia, Aero, Barnes, Childhood, Max Hutton
War Service: WW1 in India, Mesopotamia, Commanded 9th Bn. Middlesex Regt.
School: St Paul's School, London
General Information:
WW2 Kenya Defence Force - Commanded 2nd Bn 1941-42. Source: Mrs A.M. de F. Fyler
Pembroke has Major F. Stratton - Official at Pembroke House Sports 1938
EA & Rhodesia - 27/3/58 - Mrs Norah Stratton, wife of Mr F.C.G. Stratton, has died in Nairobi after a long illness. She was a sister of Miss Kathleen Robinson, also well known in Nairobi
Aero - President of the Aero Club of East Africa in 1945
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Norah Mary Stratton, British, age 72, died 12/1/58. Inscription: Norah Mary Stratton / wife of / Frank Cecil George / Stratton / died 12th January 1958 / peace be with you
FindaGrave Lt Col Frank Cecil George Stratton BIRTH 13 Nov 1886 Mortlake, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England DEATH 18 Aug 1963 (aged 76) Mombasa, Kenya BURIAL
Kisauni Cemetery Mombasa. Inscription: to / the beloved memory / of / Frank Cecil George / Stratton / 1887 - 1963 / "ardua vinci"
Childhood - Anthea Fyler (née Stratton) - "My father, Frank Stratton's office was on the corner of Government Road and Sixth Avenue, over Barclays Bank DCO when he joined Mr Delaney in 1925. My mother and I, my younger brother Francis and our English nanny arrived in Kenya in 1926 on board SS Mulbera, when I was six. We rented a house in Parklands and then moved to a bungalow owned by the Playfairs, and next door to them.
Nairobi Club - Trustee in 1960
Max Hutton - Member of Kenya's victorious Manning Cup Team - Shooting 1930
Karen 50 - One of the original members of Karen Club in 1937
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List, Nbi
TD = Territorial Decoration, awarded to those who have spent more than 12 yrs in the Territorial Army
Gazette 9 June 1964 probate
Gazette 28 Jan 1958 wife's probate
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