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Name: LONGFIELD, Richard William (Capt.)

Nee: bro of Charles Edmund Longfield, son of Richard Edmund Longfield

Birth Date: 18.12.1873 Dublin

Death Date: 14.5.1937 Salisbury, Wiltshire

Nationality: British

First Date: 1898

Last Date: 1902

Profession: Military

Area: Mbirri

Book Reference: Boyes, North, Matson Bio, EA Diary 1902, Fox Davies

War Service: 3rd Dragoon Guards

General Information:

North - arr. Mombasa 4/3/1899; on leave June 1899; arr. Mombasa 18/12/1899 on s.s. Canara, dep. for Machakos 27/12/1899; Capt.; Dep. Mombasa for Nairobi 16/7/1900; moved to new station at Mbirri 15/9/1900; dep. Mombasa for Zanzibar on sick leave 24/10/1901, dep. Zanzibar for England 1/11/1901; sent home to County Cork, Ireland 22/10/1902 "insane" (FO 2)
North - From Mallow, County Cork; joint Hon. Sec. of Nairobi Races Nov 1900; end of appt. 1-3-1902
EA Diary 1902 - Captain - The East Africa Rifles - 1901
Boyes - at Mberri with Francis G. Hall building a fort when Hall arrested John Boyes about 1901

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