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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'

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