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Name: GREY, Charles MC (Lieut.)

Nee: bro of Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Birth Date: 23 Aug 1873 Fallodon

Death Date: 28 Sep 1928 Tabora

Profession: Big-game hunter

Area: Kisii

Married: unmarried

Book Reference: Joelson, Debrett, Curtis, Gazette, Nicholls, Medals, Olga, Gethin

War Service: European War 1914-19 as Lieut. (despatches, MC)

General Information:

Joelson - severely wounded at Kisii when Capt. Thorneycroft was killed?
Curtis - p. 134 - 'Working For Ainsworth'  Olga Watkins' experiences during WW1 - Kisumu 1914 ' ......[doctor says to Olga - ' This is not a sick child, but a man, a very tough man, a white hunter. He was wounded on the very day war was declared, down on the frontier. He has had his arm amputated but has not yet come round. He was delirious when he came in, and he will not know what has happened. You will have to stay with him all the time. The orderly now with him has to leave. We have no hospital to send him to. Can you cope with a haemorrhage? Good, I'll call again at lunch time. Captain Grey remained asleep until lunch time, and when he came round his mind was very clear. Olga told him as gently as she could about what had happened .......... he was recovering. …… Mrs Grey to collect him. A tiny, trim figure of a woman turned up, impeccably dressed. Olga noted with dismay how fashionable her clothes were, how tiny her hands and feet, "Just another decorative woman!" she thought scornfully, "Too preoccupied with her appearance to visit her own husband when he was so ill!" ……… she had not heard for some time that her husband had been wounded. He had heard about the war while he was hunting in Uganda, earning money while she looked after their 2000 acre farm single-handed. He had hidden the ivory he had shot and had walked for 3 days with one bearer to carry his spare firearms, to reach Entebbe on the lake. While crossing to Kisumu he had heard about the fighting at Kisii, so had continued on the same boat to Kendu Bay, only 20 miles from Kisii. He had walked by night, reached a British camp where he breakfasted and had gone into action with them. As he had not enlisted no one knew who he was or where he was from. …… [more]  
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - KAR - Temporary Commission - To be Lieutenant - C. Grey
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Permitted to resign his appointment - Intelligence Dept. - Lieutenant C. Grey to date 30th November 1914
Nicholls - WW1 - Kisii - Charles Grey, brother of Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, was wounded and had to have his arm amputated. He was killed by a buffalo in Tanganyika in 1928. As Sir Edward had already lost another brother to a lion, he must have had a jaundiced opinion of East Africa.
Medals - East African Intelligence Department - C. Grey, Lieutenant
Nat Probate Calendar - died at Tabora Hospital, Tanganyika

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