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Name: WATHERSTON, Geoffrey Fell
Birth Date: 1883 Hinckley, Leics.
Death Date: 21 Nov 1916 Mengo Base Hospital, Kampala cemetery war memorial
First Date: 1915
Profession: East Africa Trading Co.
Area: Mombasa
Book Reference: Gazette, Barnes
War Service: Uganda Police Service Battalion
General Information:
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Mombasa
Kampala European (Nakawa Road) cemetery - G.F. Watherston, died 27 sic] November 1916. This burial was relocated to Jinja War cemetery (War Grave)
CWGC
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death at Mengo Base Hospital, pneumonia 'In civilian life he was an employee of the African Mercantile Co. Ltd. He joined the Uganda Police Battn. 19.11.1915.' Death date definitely 21 Nov, not 27 Nov as inscribed on gravestone.