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Name: TOWSE, Harold Beckwith (Lieut.-Col.)
Nee: second son of Robert Beckwith Towse, Edinburgh
Birth Date: 9 Nov 1866 Pancras, London
Death Date: 20 July 1923 Kisumu, malaria
Last Date: 1923
Profession: Farmer
Area: Kisumu, Kaimosi
Married: In London 1909 Jean Heywood Collins b. 1887 Govan, d. 15 Feb 1967 Grayshott, Hampshire (later m. Henry Gerald Laurence Oliphant 1879-1955)
Book Reference: Barnes, Alumni, SS
War Service: East African units
School: Charterhouse and Trinity College Cambridge
General Information:
Kisumu cemetery - in memory of Harold Beckwith Towse, Lt Col in the British Army late Scots Greys born 9th Nov 1866 died 20 July 1923
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers names him Harold Bechwith [no Towse] in death register
Alumni - A Writer to the Signet 1893. Capt. Lothian and Berwickshire Yeomanry 1899. Capt. 2nd Dragoons 1902; retired 1913. Served in the Great War 1914-19 (Lieut-Col East African Force, despatches 3 times)
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major H.B. Towse, 36 Sloane Court, SW3 - Farm 336
Gazette - 26/3/1924 - Probate and Administration - Lt.-Col. Harold Beckwith Towse, late of Kaimosi who died at Kisumu on 20th day of July 1924 [sic]