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Name: HENDERSON, George James 'Joe' (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 15 Sep 1870 Rangoon
Death Date: 8 Oct 1947 Hindhead
First Date: 1920
Profession: B.E.A. Corp.
Area: Nairobi, 1930 Naivasha
Married: In Ootacamund, India 29 Aug 1900 Honora Alice Caroline Purdon Irwin b. 20 Apr 1878 Pachmarhi, India, d. 8 Nov 1927 Nairobi
Children: Heather (Perrott) (1901); Joyce Helen Elizabeth (Campbell Clause, later Dickinson and then Everard) (10 Jan 1908 Madras); Josephine (Alexander, later Southey) (1913)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 31, Hut, Ian Campbell Clause
War Service: Royal Artillery in India, Boer War and WW1
General Information:
Ian Campbell Clause - WW1 - …. wounded in the head - he had a tin helmet with a hole in the middle of his forehead, and had a large depression in the forehead. I as a kid often wondered how he survived as I was sure it must have hit his brain! ……. [his wife had died prior to them coming to Kenya] and although GH re-married his wife left him at the church and never went to Kenya.
Hut has G.J. Henderson Glen Heedle Naivasha
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - in loving memory of / Honora / beloved wife of / Lt Col G J Henderson late R.A. / of "Glen Leedle" Naivasha / this monument is erected by her / sorrowing husband and three daughters, my help cometh from the Lord which / made heaven and earth / the peace of God which passeth all understanding
Gazette 23 Dec 1947 probate