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Name: KANE, Archibald O.
Nee: son of Archibald Kane
Birth Date: 1886 Croagh, Ballycastle, Co. Antrim
Death Date: 1 Dec 1949 Nairobi
First Date: 1922
Last Date: 1949
Profession: Wireless Telegraph engineer
Area: Kismayu, 1925 Mombasa, 1930 Nairobi
Married: Martha Eleanor 'Babette or Babs' McCarthy b. 1896, d.17 Mar 1956 Nairobi
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, KGF, UJ, Dominion, Barnes, mini-SITREP XXXIII, Gazette
General Information:
KGF - Archibald Kane, a post office worker who died in Nairobi in Dec 1949 married Babs McCarthy from Cork, Ireland.
Uganda Journal - Vol. 35, p. 46 - took over from A.G. Pagett in 1915 as the wireless operator at Entebbe watching for German messages to help the war effort. Kane was a member of the Post & Telegraph Dept.; he retired from Uganda as a Postmaster on 5/1/1933.
Dominion - Public Works Department - Posts and Telegraphs Dept. - Junior Postmaster - 1930
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Archibald Kane, died 1 Dec 1949 aged 63 AND Babette Kane, died 17 Mar 1956 aged 70
mini-SITREP XXXIII - Legion of Frontiersmen - 1940 - A Squadron - Squadron Sergeant Major - WO2 A. Kane
Gazette 19/8/1914 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Postal Clerk & Telegraphist - 4/8/1914 - A. Kane
KAD 1922 - Wireless Telegraph Engineer Operator, Telegraph Dept.
KAD 1922 - Hon. Sec. & Treasurer, Jubaland Club, Kismayu
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Coast - Archibald Kane, Wireless Engineer, Radio Station, Kismayu and Martha Eleanor Kane, Kismayu
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Archibald Kane, Poste Restante, Nbi., And Mrs Archibald Kane, Married woman, Nbi
Gazette 24 Jan 1950 probate required by Martha Eleanor Kane, widow
Nat Probate Calendar for wife's death