Debrett - Major Manchester Regt., and Dep. Provost Marshal, British Army of the Rhine; European War 1914-18 Comdg. 20th Roy. Fusiliers and 1st Lancashire Fusiliers (despatches, MC, DSO with Bar)

Pembroke - Judge at Pembroke House Sports 1932

East Africa & Rhodesia - 6/1/55 - New Year Honours, CBE - for public services in Kenya. Barrister South Eastern Circuit 1909-14. Served with infantry regiments in the First World War; regular Army 1917-29. Advocate, Supreme Court, Kenya 1930-39 and 1945-47; puisne judge 1948 until retirement 3 years later. Past President, Kenya branch of British Legion.

EA & Rhodesia - 7/8/58 - Colonel Frederick Stewart ("Daddy") Modera, CBE, DSO, MC, who lived for many years in Kenya, has died at his home in Hurst Green, Sussex. Born in Hove, he was educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1909, he practised on the south eastern circuit until the outbreak of war 5 years later, when he joined the University and Public Schools Brigade as a private. He was given a Regular commission in the Royal Fusiliers in 1917, and subsequently commanded the 20th battalion of that regiment. Before the March push of 1918 in France he had taken command of a Lancashire Fusilier battalion, and while serving with that unit and the Manchester Regiment he won both the Military Cross and the DSO and bar.

After the war he held staff appointments in Farnce and Ireland and was DAAG at the War Office. Then he went to the Army of the Rhine as Deputy Provost Marshal. In 1929 he retired from the Army. Soon afterwards he took up a partnership in Nairobi in the legal firm of Shapley, Schwartze and Barret, and his influence soon began to be felt in a widening range of activities, first in the British Legion; afterwards he was for many years chairman of its Kenya branch. He also served as secretary of the Kenya Law Society and as touring captain of the Kenya Golfing Society.

More than once he acted as an alternate member of the Legislative Council of Kenya, on which he sat as member for Nairobi South from 1938 to 1942. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was made commander of the Nairobi Sub-Area, an appointment which he held until 1944. He then became an acting judge, and in 1948 was appointed a puisne judge. In 1915 Modera married Miss Mary Antonetta Rolland, who survives him with a son and a daughter.

DSO - London Gazette 16/9/18 - Frederick Stewart Modera MC, Capt.  (Acting Lieut.-Col.) Royal Fusiliers, attached Lancashire Fusiliers. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He did fine work in reorganizing lines of resistance during a withdrawal, and in counter-attacking. He showed marked ability and disregard for danger.

London Gazette 15/7/19 - Bar to DSO - East of Ypres on 28 Sept 1918, and subsequent days he led and commanded his battalion with marked courage and skill. Although wounded in the hand and face in "No Mans Land" when leading his battalion shortly after zero on 28 Sept he remained on duty for the next 5 days. His dispositions for both attack and defence were always right, and he proved himself a born leader of men. He personally led his battalion in the attack.

Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Col. Frederick Stewart Modera, Barrister-at-Law, Shapley, Schwartze & Barret and Antonetta Mary Modera, Married woman, Muthaiga

Did great work in the interests of Muthaiga Golf Club. President of Muthaiga GC in 1938-40. Captain of Muthaiga GC in 1931, 1936. Original member of Brackenhurst GC when it became 9 holes in 1931.

Gazette 2 Dec 1958 probate

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Jean Felicite Stewart Modera, British, age 14, died 14/6/32