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Name: McCARTHY, Andrew Joseph MBE (Capt.)
Birth Date: 1894 ?20 Apr, Bantry, Co. Cork
Death Date: ?1966 Redbridge, London ?10 June 1966 Durrus, Co. Cork
First Date: 1925
Profession: Barrister, Crown Counsel, Attorney General's Office
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: Red 31, Gazette, Dominion and Colonial Office List
War Service: Gloucester Regt, attached to Royal Corps of Signals
General Information:
Dominion - Crown Counsel, Attorney General's Dept. - 1930
Gazette - 11/11/1925 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Crown Counsel - A.J. McCarthy
Colonial Office List: MBE (military) for military service 1914-22 in Mesopotamia, North Persia and NW Frontier of India (Waziristan); commissioned for services in the field 1917; mentioned in dispatches 1921; Captain Aug 1921; called to Irish Bar (King's Inn) 1924; called to bar of Northern Ireland 1924; Crown Council Kenya Oct 1925; acting senior Crown Council on various occasions in 1926 and 1927; acting solicitor-general and member of the Legislative Council Apr 1928 to Jan 1929 and from June to August 1929.
?Court of Appeal for E. Africa 1938 Dar es Salaam.
Peter Ayre heard in Jan 1912 that there was an 84-year-old daughter of his who had been put up for adoption in 1927 in S. Africa.