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Name: GRAY, Henry Albert

Short Name: otherwise known as Henry John Gray

Birth Date: 15 Mar 1875 Woolwich

Death Date: 25 July 1947 Mombasa

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1947

Profession: An Army Band Master in S. Africa. Came to Kenya after WW1 and worked at the Vet Lab at Kabete

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Simon's Town, S. Africa 5 Jan 1901 Gertrude Adelaide Hayward b. 1878 Ipswich, d. 1971 England

Children: Henry Walter (24 June 1903 Albany, Cape Province); Cyril Wiiliam (15 Sep 1904 Grahamstown-18 Oct 1989 Chobham, Surrey); Violet May (McQueen) (4 Sep 1901 Cape Colony-1980 Tavistock); Alice Lilian Rose (Heath, later Mrs Jock Flett (21 Mar 1906 Albany, Cape Colony-1994 Canada); Gertrude Evelyn (b. 1907 and Dorothy b. 1909 both lost in a ship torpedoed during WW1)

Book Reference: EAWL, KAD, Red 25, EAMR, Red 22, Dominion, Barnes, Red 19

War Service: EAMR has Harold J. C. Gray E Sqdn. 2/9/15

General Information:

Source Mrs Ingrid Gray

Dominion - Agricultural Department - Veterinary Research - Laboratory Assistant - 1930

Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Henry John Gray died 25 Jul 1947 age 72, Nursing Home, Pneumonia, Heart Failure

Red Book 1919 - Veterinary Department - Laboratory Assistant - H.J. Gray

KAD 1922 - Laboratory Assistant, Veterinary Research Dept.

Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Henry John Gray, Laboratory Asst., Kabete

Gazette 14 Oct 1947 probate required by Gertrude Adelaide [sic]

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