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Name: SHELDON, Bernard Alan CPM
Nee: son of Emile Thadee Schoedelin
Birth Date: 23 Jan 1911 Muswell Hill
Death Date: 5 July 2000 Cape Town
First Date: 1939
Profession: Asst. Inspector, Kenya Police in 1937 - later Asst. Commissioner. Trained Ethiopian refugees for the day when they would be able to be of use in the liberation of their country. Super in 1953. Originally 2nd Grade Asst. Insp. 1939
Area: Laikipia
Married: In Nairobi 1944 Freda Margaret Turner b. 29.7.1912 Cambridge, d. 26.7.1999 Cape Town
Children: Elizabeth Jane (1946); Stephen Lawrence L. (1949)
Book Reference: Police, Staff 53, Colonial, Habari 16
School: Highgate School, London
General Information:
Colonial - Senior Supt. 1954; Asst. Commissioner 1957-63
Habari 16 - Bernard [Sheldon], Paddy Ross and I were posted to Maseno to open a new Training Depot commanded by the ASP D.D. McGoun and the 3 of us in the exalted rank of 2AI early in 1939. I recall the awful mud huts that we were quartered in, as well as the rather grim conditions under which we lived.