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Name: RADCLIFFE, John 'Jack'
Birth Date: 1886
Death Date: 9 May 1919 Nairobi, accident
First Date: 1912
Profession: Accountant and manufacturer's agent
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Leeds 12 June 1912 Sarah Gertrude Burrow b. 21 Jan 1886 Leeds, d. 1972 Truro
Children: John (3 Dec 1913 Nairobi-5 Feb 1917 Nairobi, aged 3, acute esenteric tumours), Frederick Sidney (14 Oct 1917 Nairobi); Joan (15 Nov 1919 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Gillett, Barnes, Gazette
General Information:
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - J. Radcliffe, English, age 33, died 9/5/1919
Gazette 13/8/1919 - Probate and Administration in respect of John Radclffe who died at Nairobi on 9/5/1919
Ancestry Family Tree says he died 14 Oct 1973 in Helston, Cornwall
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers says son John died of acute mesenteric tumours.
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for his death - names him as Iden Radcliffe aged 33. No details re accident (but mistakenly shot in military exercises, acc. to East African Standard)