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Name: HATCH, George Pelham CMG (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 23 July 1855 Barrackpore, India
Death Date: 23 May 1923 Walmer, Kent
Nationality: British
First Date: 1892
Last Date: 1903
Profession: 1892 Commanding the Sultan's troops in Zanzibar. Kelly's - served in Afghan War 1879-80, Egyptian War 1882, commdt. (with temp. Rank of Lt.-Col. 1899) of EA Rifles from 1895
Area: Zanzibar
Married: In Hardenhuish, Wiltshire 24 Sep 1895 Helen Sofia Hall Raikes b.1869 Chittoe, Devizes, d. 24 Oct 1928 Walmer, Kent
Book Reference: Fitzgerald, Kelly, Moyse, Adventurers, Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, Nicholls, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904
War Service: Wiltshire Regt. formerly with 2nd West India Regt.
General Information:
Kenya Diary - 1902 - Hatch is our Colonel and resides in Mombasa.
EAHB 1905 - Officer of IBEA Co. who served in EA as Officer Commanding Troops - retired from the service EA Rifles 1895-1901 - Commandant (by 1901 Lt.-Col.) . There were 2 other English officers - one at Kismayu and one in Uganda. In Jan 1901 he was pronounced unfit to take part in an expedition to Jubaland.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa (Lt.-Colonel Hatch CMG, and Mrs Hatch)
North - Head of Zanzibar Forces, Local General; Zanzibar June, Sept 1892; Malindi area 6/12/1892; requested transfer to Army Reserve List Aug. 1893; At. Lamu 20/10/1893; Zanzibar March 1894; Appt. to command troops in EAP 28/8/1895, local Major; based Mombasa Jan 1896, wife dep. for Cairo 31/1/1896, ill; Kismayu May 1898; Machakos with wife Feb 1899; Home leave; Local Lieut.-Col. Commander EA Rifles & Ogaden Punitive Force, Jubaland Dec 1900; Issued with Public Officer's Game Licence at Nairobi 18/3/1901; based Mombasa May 1902; dep Nairobi at end of appt. 5/4/1903 - "not much good" (Meinertzhagen)
EAS - 15/1/1903 - Col. Hatch, commandant of the KAR returned from Kismayu on Monday
North - 'decrepit and useless …. indolent and weak' (Meinertzhagen, RH); 'Col. Hatch is not an efficient Commanding Officer and it is in the interests of the Protectorate that he be replaced' (Eliot, FO 2)
EA Diary 1902 - Lieut. Col. Commanding The East Africa Rifles - 1901
EAHB 1904 - retired during 1903