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Name: WHYTE, David

Birth Date: 8 Aug 1913 Belfast

Death Date: 31 May 1959 Thika

First Date: 1937

Profession: Secretary, education officer

Area: Tanganyika

Married: In Dar es Salaam 1946 Bertha Smedley b. 19 Nov 1908 Birmingham, d. 5 Apr 1993 Inverness

Children: two

Book Reference: Sitrep 2

General Information:

Gazette 1 Sep 1959 probate
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 485) No birthdate in KR records.
Old Yorkist website: Mre Berthe [sis] Whyte. 1964.. Taught Maths from 1961-64. Mother of Adrian Whyte (Eliot, 1960-64). Left Kenya in ’64 and settled in Hertfordshire until she retired in 1968. Subsequently moved to the Spey Valley in Scotland where she remained until she sadly passed away in 1993. (from her son, Adrian Whyte, 9 Dec 2006).

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