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Name: DELME-RADCLIFFE, Charles KCMG, CVO, Sir
Birth Date: 21.9.1864 Colchester
Death Date: 13.12.1937 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality: British
First Date: 1901
Profession: Connaught Rangers. KAR
Married: In Westminster, London 3 July 1902 Enid Margery Treves b. 4 Jan 1878 Sydenham, d. 31 Oct 1936 Marylebone (dau of Sir Frederick Treves)
Children: None in Who's Who
Book Reference: Sitrep 6, Moyse, Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1904, Land
War Service: Connaught Rangers
General Information:
Moyse - 1899 - assumed command of the Nile Military District. ... the distances he covered during night marches earned him locally the name 'Langa - Langa' ('were-lion')............. The Anglo-German Boundary Commission began work in Uganda early in 1902, when Major Delmé-Radcliffe, second-in-command of 4 KAR, was appointed First Commissioner of the Survey.
Kenya Diary - May 1904 - travelled from Kisumu with Major Delme-Radcliffe who is returning home from Uganda.
EAHB 1905 - 2nd in Command, 4th Battalion, KAR, Uganda
North - Appt. Captain 10/1/1898; Appt. Uganda Mil. dep. Mombasa for Uganda 23/6/1898; on punitive expedn. in Nandi area Dec 1898; Mumia's 4/1/1899; Snr. Mil. Officer Nile Province, at Affuddu 6/7/1900; Appt. Major 28/8/1900; Based in Nile Mil. District May 1901; appt. Brevet Lieut-Col. 9/2/1902; dep. Mombasa for Port Florence 30/10/1902; arr. Mombasa from England to be in command of Anglo-German Boundary Commission with Maj. Bright & Lieut. Behren 31/7/1902; second in command 4th Batt. KAR Dec 1903; dep. Entebbe for coast 21/5/1904; arr. London 18/6/1904; resigned, end of appt. 26/10/1904
Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - Lango 1901 - Awarded for the punitive expedition - 1901 - under Maj. C. Delme-Radcliffe against the Lango people and the Sudanese mutineers
Land - 1909 - Col. C.D. Radcliffe - Agricultural and grazing, 5000 acres, Rift Valley, 27-3-04, Registered 16-2-09