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Name: BOCK, Henry Arthur

Photo Source: EAS 2 July 1937

Birth Date: 30.3.1906 Pretoria

Death Date: 10.1.1958 Nairobi

First Date: 1926

Last Date: 1958

Profession: Quantity surveyor, PWD 1927-39. Asst. General Manager Timsales, Nairobi 1945-58. Senior Asst. Quantity Surveyor, PWD, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1929. Originally Jun. Asst. Q.S. 1926

Area: Nairobi, Box 662

Married: At Makuyu church 19 June 1937 Pamela Myra Sequeira b. 4 Oct 1918 Duns, Scotland, d. 2003 Bournemouth (dau of James Harry Sequeira and later Mrs Cedric 'Titus' Oates)

Children: Helen Denise (Drysdale) (21 Jan 1940 Nairobi); Terence John

Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Red 31, Barnes, Dominion

War Service: Major E.A. Engineers (CRE's Office)

School: St. Edward's School, Johannesburg, SA. PASI, MCQS (SA)

General Information:

Source Address - see Mrs Myra Oates

Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - H.A. Bock, British, age 51, died 10/1/58 KR 979

Dominion - Public Works Department - Loan Staff - Junior Assistant Quantity Surveyor - 1930

Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Henry Arthur Bock buried 11 Jan 1958, European Hospital, Coronary Thrombosis, Body sent to Nbi

Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Henry Arthur Bock, Civil Servant, Box 662, Nbi

Gazette 8 July 1958 probate says he died 11 Jan

Denise Drysdale (daughter): He was a keen sportsman and helped develop facilities at Parklands Sports Club in Nairobi where he laid out the tennis courts and later organised the building of the swimming pool.

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