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Name: GRIFFITHS, Llewellyn OBE, KPM, CPM
Photo Source: David Reeve
Birth Date: 21.1.1910 Westbourne, Sussex
Death Date: 30.12.1988 Newbridge, Wrexham
First Date: 1930
Profession: Asst. Inspector in the Kenya Police Awarded the Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 1936 for his services in the NFD. Senior Super in 1953. Originally Constable 1930.
Area: Nakuru
Married: In Nairobi 1940 Cecilia Irene Searle née Place b. 21.11.1922 Cambridge
Children: Charles (6.6.1948)
Book Reference: Police, Staff 53, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, A. Allen, Staff 39
School: Portsmouth Grammar School
General Information:
Police - Put in charge of refugee camp at Isiolo for Ethiopian refugees who had escaped from the Italians - at one time there were approximately 10,000 men, women and children refugees. He later became Asst. Commissioner and Commandant of the Police Training School at Kiganjo.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 14/6/56 - OBE
Colonial - Supt. 1951; Asst. Commissioner 1954
Ancestry Passenger list 1956 Durban-UK for dates - he is 'colonial police officer'
[this man is not to be confused with Arthur Llewelyn Griffith, also a police officer]