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Name: FULLER-MAITLAND, Robert Prescott
Nee: son of William Fuller Maitland {Fox Davies - no hyphen}
Birth Date: 30.11.1887 Stansted Hall, Essex, bapt. 5.1.1888
Death Date: 21.6.1912 Njemps, killed by elephant
Last Date: 1912
Area: Njemps
Book Reference: Gazette, Fox Davies
General Information:
Gazette 15/7/1912 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of R.P. Fuller Maitland who died at Njemps on 21/6/1912
Web - St Mary's Stansted Mountfitchet - In the Lancaster Chapel there is a memorial to Robert Prescott Fuller-Maitland who was killed by an elephant while shooting near Lake Baringo, British East Africa, in 1912.
Gazette - 7/6/1927 - Buried near Baringo - Mr Fuller Maitland was killed by an elephant; his grave is marked
East African Standard 13 July 1912 He was hunting elephant. Got several shots into one, then followed it into bush. Elephant picked him up and dashed him against a tree, then knelt on him. Somalis carried his body back.