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Name: FINN, Patrick Douglas OBE
Birth Date: 2 Jan 1908 Canterbury
Death Date: 24 Mar 1978 Penshurst, Kent
First Date: 1929
Profession: Manager of Shell
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Canterbury 1945 Margaret Biggleston née Reeves b. 1915 Lewisham, d. 24 Aug 1995 Benson, Oxfordshire (prev. m. to Desmond Herbert Biggleston d. 1942)
Children: Valerie J. (1942); Nigel P. (1949)
Book Reference: Karen 50, EA & Rhodesia
General Information:
East Africa and Rhodesia - 2/11/50 - Mr P.D. Finn, manager of the Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd., who is now on a two-months' tour of South, Central and East Africa, first went to Kenya at the end of 1929, and from 1939 until 1945 served in the RAF in East Africa (including the Ethiopian campaign), the Western Desert, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Malta, Sicily, Italy and the UK, being 4 times mentioned in despatches and awarded the OBE. On release from active service he returned to the Shell Company of East Africa Ltd. As assistant general manager, and became general manager in 1948. He was at one time president of the Kenya Rugby Referees' Association.
Karen 50 - One of the original members of Karen Club in 1937