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Name: HILLIER, Frank Jameson Hirst (Capt.)

Nee: son of Dr A.P. Hillier MP of Markyate, Herts

Birth Date: 5 Sep 1895 S. Africa

Death Date: 28 Sep 1927 at sea aboard 'Dumbea'

First Date: 1920

Last Date: 1927

Profession: ADC

Area: Nyeri

Married: no

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22, Eton, SS

War Service: RE, KAR

School: St Andrew's Coll. Grahamstown, Eton 1908-12

General Information:

Red 22 - Hon. Treasurer, Nyeri Gymkhana Club and Nyeri Golf Club
Eton (1909) - Assistant District Commissioner HM's Colonial Service, E. Africa; served as Private S. African Infty., Corpl. R. Engineers, Lieut. KAR and Capt. R. Fusiliers in E. Africa, S. Africa, S.W. Africa and Russia in WW1 (Despatches)
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Capt. F.H.J. Hillier, c/o National Bank of India, 26 Bishopsgate, EC2 - Farm 197 - Representative J.C. Hewitt Esq., c/o New Stanley Hotel
KAD 1922 - Administration Cadet, Nyeri.
KAD 1922 - Hon. Treasurer, Nyeri Gymkhana Club
Gazette - 11/10/1927 - Obituary - His Excellency the Governor announces with deep regret the death at sea during the voyage to England on 28 September of Frank Hirst Jameson Hillier, Administrative Officer. Captain Hillier entered the Kenya Administration in 1920 and by his death Government has lost the services of a promising young officer who earned the respect of all those with whom he came in contact and the affection of a wide circle of friends
St Andrew's Coll. records: son of No. 364; Left March 1913; b. 5.9.'95; Day. Form VI; Farmer; Great War Capt.; M. in D. '18-'19; Kenya Administration '20; District Commissioner; died October 1927.
Declaration of crew re death dated Paris (Ancestry), so must have died off coast of France

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