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Name: METCALFE, William Edward
Birth Date: 15.9.1891 Bishophill, Yorks.
Death Date: 19.6.1939 Nairobi
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1939
Profession: PWD
Area: Mombasa, 1930 Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi 12 Sep 1925 Annie Wilhelmina Plenderleith b. 19 Apr 1905 Coliton, Leith, d. 29 Mar 1967 Birmingham (dau of Adam Plenderleith. She m. 3 Aug 1939 Tudor Pritchard 1911-1987)
Children: son (11 July 1927 Nairobi); Dorothy Mary (Pettit) (6 Nov 1929 Nairobi-2017)
Book Reference: Red 25, Red 31, Red 22, Gazette, Barnes, Dominion, Medals
War Service: EA Transport Corps
General Information:
Red 22 - Rogers Rd., Mombasa
Red 22 - W.E. Metcalfe & Co, Mombasa - Shipping, Forwarding, and Clearing Agents
Gazette - 6/12/16 - Notice - The following officer no longer holds service under the Crown - William Edward Metcalfe - Section Clerk, Uganda Railway
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - William Edward Metcalfe, British, age 48, died 19/6/39
Dominion - Public Works Department - Clerk, Head Office - 1930 - W.E. Metcalfe
Medals - East African Regiment - EA Transport Corps, No. 1589, Serjeant
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Nairobi, North Area - William Edward Metcalfe - Goods Agent, Uganda Railway, Station Road
Gazette - 2/2/1927 - Petition for Insolvency - William Edward Metcalf
EAS 20 June 1939 He died aged 47. He came to Kenya in December 1913. For three years before, he had served with the Royal Garrison artillery. Served throughout the Great War with local units and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he was employed by the PWD with which he remained until 1930, when he became an invalid and returned to England. Sometime later he came back to Kenya and obtained employment with the Express Transport Company with which he worked until the time of his death. He leaves a widow and a son and a daughter, all of whom are in England.