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Name: SOUTHEY, Ruth Lorraine, Miss

Birth Date: 27 Apr 1919 Farm 70, Eldoret

Death Date: 12 Feb 1941 Nairobi, car accident on active service in Women's Territorial Service

First Date: 1939

Last Date: 1941

Profession: Clerk, Printing & Stationery Dept., in 1939, appointed 1939.

Area: Nairobi

Married: No

Book Reference: Staff 39, CWGC, Barnes, Campling, Gazette

General Information:

CWGC - Nairobi (Forest Road) Cemetery - Driver R.L. Southey, K/183. Women's Territorial Service (East Africa). 12th February 1941. Block 16. Grave 84.
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Miss R.L. Southey, British, age 21, died 12/2/41
Campling - Outspan Hotel - Another pretty girl to work as receptionist was Ruth Southey, who was still there when Keith [Campling] left Nyeri at outbreak of war in 1939; he heard later that she contracted meningitis and died during the early years of the war.
Gazette 15 Apr 1941 probate required by Evelyn Southey of Eldoret

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