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Name: SWEATMAN, Eric Allen
Nee: bro of Edward Fenwick Sweatman
Birth Date: 4 July 1905 St Margarets at Cliffe, Kent, bapt. 30 July
Death Date: 30 Aug 1979 St Margarets at Cliffe
First Date: 1928
Profession: Appointed as a DO in 1939. DC Kabarnet 1939. Zanzibar Service from 1928 to 1939. Officer in Charge, Masai District in 1953. PC in 1953
Area: Kabarnet, Kisii
Married: In Zanzibar 29 Aug 1934 Lilian Goold Walker
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, Foster, Last Chance, Golf, RH
School: Rugby and Brasenose College Oxford; BA
General Information:
RH s.1277 - DC/ADC at Kisii in 1938
Last Chance - Officer in Charge of the Masai 1948. In 26 years of Africa he never saw a lion! First played in the EA Amateur Golf Championship in 1936. [Pat Crichton says he was useless and had to be `Got rid of`, BUT he`d never had a bad confidential report!]