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Name: HARRAP, Kenneth Douglas OBE
Birth Date: 8 Jan 1919 Doncaster
Death Date: 16 July 1994 Oxford
First Date: 1949 - after serving with the Gurkhas in WW2
Last Date: 1975
Profession: Adjutant to the 4th KAR, the Uganda Battalion, stationed at Langata then Jinja, then Somalia. Joined the Labour Department, 1950 and was Provincial Labour Officer, Mombasa for 2 years. Returned in 1969, Personnel Adviser to the Mercat Group
Area: All over, Nairobi
Married: 1948 June Doreen Hambidge b. 9 Aug 1924 Kitale
Children: David Louis John (2.2.1949); Dorothy Mary (20.12.1952); Stephen Peter
Book Reference: EAWL, Colonial
War Service: Military service 1939-49, Major
School: Doncaster Grammar School, Danensis School
General Information:
After death of wife's stepmother accepted a post with the ILO and went to Swaziland to work for UNDP. Since then has worked in many countries as consultant for UNDP or ODA. Source: Mrs J. Harrap
Telegraph - 23/8/1994 - Obituary on file
1939 England and Wales Register living in Thorne, Yorkshire, as 'glass beveller'