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Name: BALL, Robert Sturge

Nee: son of Robert Steele Ball, and of Olga Ball (née Sturge)

Birth Date: 3 Feb 1909 Streatham, London

Death Date: 30 July 1940 killed in action near Wajir

First Date: 1934

Last Date: 1940

Profession: Agricultural officer

Area: Subukia

Married: 13 May 1939 Kathleen Grant Fielden b. 1924 Streatham, d. 1 July 1998 Streatham (later m. David Edward Fielden)

Children: Robert Grant Ball (3 July 1940)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, CWGC, mini-Sitrep XXXII, Wikitree, Nellie

War Service: Kenya Regiment and E. Af. Reconnaissance Regt.

School: Marlborough, MA Cantab.; Diploma, Imperial Coll. of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad

General Information:

CWGC - Cpl. Robert Sturge Ball, LF/553. The Kenya Regt. And EA Reconnaissance Sqn. 30 July 1940, Age 31. Son of Robert Steele Ball and of Olga Ball (née Sturge); husband of Kathleen Ball, of Spring Hill, Subukia. MA (Cantab); Diploma, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture - Nairobi War Cemetery Plot 2 H 39

Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 553)

Blue Book 1938 appt 12.1.1934

Tom Lawrence: Nairobi War Cemetery, Grave 2.H.39 (CWGC Website). There is a mulberry tree in the Observatory Garden, London -planted in memory of Robert Sturge Ball. He was grandson of astronomer Sir Robert Ball.

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mulberry_tree_in_Observatory_garden_-_geograph.org.uk_-_533366.jpg).

Family History: Born 3^rd Feb 1909, son of Robert Steele Ball and Olga Sturge, and younger of their two children. His sister was Stella Elizabeth Ball (b. 1907). He was educated at Marlborough College. He graduated from King's College, Cambridge University an M.A. and then with a Diploma of Agriculture. He married Kathleen Grant, daughter of Thomas Grant, on 13^th May 1939, and had a son Robert Grant Ball (b. 3^rd July 1940). She then married again, this time to David Edward Fielden, (son of Lt.-Col. E.A. Fielden & Phoebe Brand) on 17^th Sept 1942, and had two further children -Joshua Anthony Fielden (b. 1944) and Sarah Brand Fielden (b. 1947). She died on 1^st July 1998.

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