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Name: WILSON, Ralph Berry

Nee: bro of Henry William George 'Harry' Wilson

Birth Date: 1891 Milverton, Somerset

Death Date: 30 May 1944 Nairobi

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1944

Profession: Farmer

Area: Machakos, 1925 Chumbi, Athi River, 1930 Nakuru

Book Reference: Joelson, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Machakos, Barnes

War Service: East African units

General Information:

Red 25 - R. Bury-Wilson, Hon. Secretary & Treasurer, Ulu Farmers' Association
Machakos - Daddy [P.H. Percival] once called on the Wilson brothers at Chumbi and found Berry trying to read Harry's temperature with an incubator thermometer. As the mercury moved down very fast when the thermometer was taken out Berry was on his knees by the bed trying to read it while in Harry's mouth. Berry was a strong man and had broken their only clinical thermometer when shaking it down at the outset of Harry's fever. It was Berry Wilson who, on another occasion, came and drove me to Nairobi with Peggy, who had typhoid
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Ralph Berry Wilson, died 30 May 1944 aged 52
Joelson - 1928 - Machakos - Castor-oil plants have given encouraging results to Mr R. Berry Wilson who put down an experimental patch in 1926 .….
Hut has R. Berry-Wilson
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Ukamba Voters List
Gazette 5 Dec 1944 probate

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