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Name: CLARKE, Francis Henry 'Frank'

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Birth Date: 1884

Death Date: 12 Nov 1965 Hillcrest, Natal

First Date: 1904

Profession: Farmed at Nakuru and in 1926 was Game Warden at Narok

Area: Nakuru, Lado Enclave, Narok, 1930 Asst. Game Warden, Nairobi, 1922 Game Warden Narok, 1937 Maiyolo Est. Solai

Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Staff 39, Gethin, Bwana, Adventurers, Long Grass, Vulture, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Pioneers, Red 22, Elephant, EAHB 1906, Dominion, North, SKP, Chandler

General Information:

Staff 39 - Senior Asst. Game Warden in 1939, appointed 1937. Originally Asst. Game Warden 1919. On leave pending retirement in 1939.
Gethin diary 1911 - Loydien - July 11 - 'Drury and Miss Drury go over to Clarke's. …'  
Bwana - 1938 - Acting Chief Game Warden - a tremendous character who, years earlier, had poached ivory in the French and Belgian Congo.
Adventurers - Lado Enclave - '.... Clarke and Pearson, for example, were two good and true men, who played their part well in those halcyon times, and are today game rangers in Kenya and Uganda respectively.' ....….
Long Grass - Billy Pickering, who shot one of the best tuskers on record, almost 200 pounds of ivory on each side. The very next day after his triumph, he drew a bead on another bull, which charged him after a shift in the wind. His gunbearer later reported that although Pickering raised and aimed the rifle, he seemed paralyzed and did not fire as the elephant barreled down on him. Pickering must have known what fate had up her sleeve for him since he never even tried to run. For openers, the bull literally ripped Billy's head from his body, pitching it quite a respectable distance away in the bush, where it was later found by a fellow hunter named Clarke, sent to scoop up the remains. Strangely, Clarke, who was an old hand himself, had a similar thing happen to him a short while later. He was about to ventilate a nice bull from a canoe, a relatively safe position, but he could not force his finger to press the trigger. Although the bull never saw him and did not charge, that afternoon wrapped up Clarke's hunting career. He never fired another shot.
KAD 1922 - Asst. Game Warden, Narok
Red 25 - Assistant Game Warden 1919-
Colonial - Asst. Game Warden EAP 1919; Acting Game Warden Kenya 1932; Senior Asst. Game Warden 1937
Elephant - F.H. Clarke, Acting Game Warden of Kenya in 1932, was in his time a hunter of elephant in that wonderful country which lies round the boundary of the Congo and Uganda when the game laws were easy and the boundary between the tow countries was about as clearly defined as the Equator!
Dominion - Game Department - Assistant Warden - 1930
SKP - 1938 - Society of Kenya Pioneers - over 30 years in Colony - arrived Dec 1904 - Naivasha
Chandler - Clarke came to Africa in 1904, prospecting for gold around Lake Albert with a partner named MacAlister. MacAlister died of blackwater fever, and Clarke bought a 10.75 mm Mauser and switched to elephant hunting. He went up to the Lado Enclave and was very successful hunting with the likes of Billy Pickering and Bob Foran. ………. Clarke became an assistant game warden back in Kenya in 1919, rising to the position of Acting Warden for the entire country in 1932. He retired to his farm at Nakuru.
Gazette 24/12/1919 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Assistant in Game Dept. - 8/12/1919
Gazette 12 July 1966 probate
 

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