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Name: SWAIN, Walter CIE
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1876 Eastville, Lincs.
Death Date: 19 Dec 1945 Kitale
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1945
Profession: ex-Indian Police. Farmer and managing director, Kitale
Area: Kitale
Married: 1900 Annie Mathilda Fox b. 21 Sep 1879, d. Kitale 9 July 1948
Children: Richard Cecil (19 Sep 1901 Bhagalpur, India-19 Sep 1901-31 Oct 1984 Cape Town); Harold Saul 'Hal' (1903); Ruth (Davies)
Book Reference: Golf, Debrett, Hut, SS, Barnes
School: Boston Grammar School
General Information:
Debrett - entered Indian Police Depart. 1895, became Principal of Police Training Coll. and Comdt. Mil. Police 1900, Additional Dep. Commr. of Police Calcutta 1905, Sup. of Police 1906, Dep. Inspector-Gen. of Police Bihar and Orissa 1919, and Inspector-Gen. 1924; has King's Police Medal
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Mrs A.M. Swain, Rose Cottage, East Bridgeford, Notts - Farm 908
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Walter Swain CIE 'Pop' - born 17 Jan 1876, died 19 Dec 1945
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Anne Mathilda Swain - born 21 Sep 1879, died 9 Jul 1948
Hut has W. Swain 'Tony' MC 1937 Lindisfarne Kaboywa
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
President of Kitale Club (Golf) in 1932, 1939. Captain of Kitale Golf Club in 1931.
Gazette 24 Jan 1950 probate of Annie
Angela Swain: Walter Swain, Inspector General of Police, Behar Orissa, India. Walter and his wife, Annie, retired to Kenya in 1922 as did Richard and Hal. His daughter Ruth Davies was an interesting character and quite a well-known identity in Kenya. She danced with the Paris Ballet in her youth, became an opera singer and gave many performances in Kenya. Also was one of the crew of women who flew new aeroplanes from the factory in – was it Coventry, England, to the various aerodromes in England during WW11. She lived just out of Mombasa and raised the flag every time a British navy ship entered port and was known to virtually every Captain.