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Name: HOPPER, George Frederick Randolph 'Dudu'
Birth Date: 3.5.1910 Castle Dene, Chester le Street, Durham
Death Date: 26.1.1974 Kikuyu
First Date: 1927
Profession: Butchery
Area: Nandi Hall Butchery Eldoret, Box 70 Eldoret,
Married: 1943 Dorothy Lily d. 24 May 1978 Nairobi. She was also a member of Kenya British Legion, arrived in Kenya in 1938
Children: Wendy (Mallitte)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Legion, Harmony, Wendy Mallitte, Campling
War Service: Captain, EA Army Service Corps, 1939-45
General Information:
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 3/12/34, age 24, Business Proprietor, Nairobi
Wendy Mallitte - My mother, Dorothy Lily, arrived in Kenya in 1938 from Southern Rhodesia. She worked at Theo Schouten the hairdressing salon which was behind the New Stanley. ….. They moved to Eldoret in November 1945
Campling - 1932 - Mrs Scott's boarding house in Parklands - "Alec & Freddie [Campling] shared a large bedroom with Graham Dicks and Dudu Hopper …
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 61). Legion has G.F.R. Hopper