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Name: STEVENSON, George Marshall
Birth Date: 1885
Death Date: 22.8.1933 Nairobi, suicide
Last Date: 1933
Profession: Head of Nairobi Fire Brigade
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: Harmony, Barnes
War Service: E. Yorks. Regt.; Gloucester Regt.
General Information:
Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 4/3/29, died 1933
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - George Marshall Stevenson, British, age 48, died 22/8/33
?George Stevenson, diver, b. 1881 went to Mombasa in 1923 with wife Mary Annie b. 1880, nurse
Masters and Mates certificate 21 June 1901
Head of Nairobi Fire Brigade.
Western Daily Press 23 Aug 1933 Head of Nairobi fire brigade Major G.M. Stevenson, DSO, was found dead in the garden of the fire station at Nairobi yesterday. Major Stevenson, who was a native of Bridlington, won £10,000 in the Calcutta sweep in 1908.
EAS 2 Sep 1933 Inquest - he shot himself in the head in the garden of Nairobi Fire Station. He was worried financially and about his friend Mrs Elsie Maxwell going back to England.