EA & Rhodesia - 16/4/59 - Mr H.I. Barrett ("Hodge" to so many people in East Africa), who for the past four years has been divisional manager in Kenya for the Shell Company of East Africa Ltd., has just reached England on retirement after 32 years service. He first went to Nairobi in 1930, was later transferred to Palestine and the Sudan, and returned to Kenya in 1946 to establish the East African branch of Shell Chemical Co. Ltd. Then he went for a spell to Egypt, whence he was posted to Uganda as branch manager in Kampala. The new divisional manager in Kenya is Mr J.G. Francis, who has been in the head office in Kenya for the past two years.

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Horace Ivo Barrett, Sales Assistant, Box 930, Nbi

One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 158).No birthdate in KR records