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Name: BARNARD, Geoffrey Canning
Birth Date: 1893 Stratford on Avon
Death Date: 28.12.1952 Nairobi
First Date: 1937
Last Date: 1952
Profession: Mining engineer
Married: 1. In Cape Town 2 Feb 1927 May 'Maisie' Tonking née Bramble b. 1895 St Erith, Cornwall, d. 19 Apr 1937 Nairobi, typhoid fever; 2. In Nairobi 28 Aug 1937 Mrs. Stella Dorothea Vera Ross- McCarthy
Book Reference: Karen 50, Bur
War Service: Royal Engineers
General Information:
Nairobi City Park Burial Register - Geffrey [sic] Canning Barnard, age 60, died 28/12/1952
Karen 50 - One of the original members of Karen Club in 1937
Maisie did transport work in Ireland during the war in Northern Ireland. Later she spent a few years in S. Africa. She accompanied her husband to Tanganyika, Sudan, Uganda, N. Rhodesia, Belgian Congo and Kenya.