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Name: CAMPBELL, Archibald (Capt.)

Birth Date: 11 Mar 1895 Glasgow

Death Date: 19 Dec 1975 Kisumu

First Date: 1923

Last Date: 1953

Profession: Mechanical Engineer, Muhoroni Sugar Co.. (Nottidge & Allen). Created the sugar factory and became chief engineer

Area: Muhoroni

Married: In Birmingham 1920 Ethel Maude Spencer Jones b. 1 Nov 1894 Birmingham, d. 9 Jan 1940 Subukia (joined him with their 2 daughters in 1925, prev. m. to Thomas Henry Couchman 1892-1917, killed in France)

Children: Irene Spencer (Smith) (23 Sep 1921 Glasgow-15 Sep 2017 Haslemere); Catherine Mary Gilmore (Wilson) (11 Feb 1924 Glasgow-2014); Janet Cameron (15 Nov 1930 Muhuroni-2008); Anne Ethel (Howard Smith) (27 Dec 1940 Nakuru-4 Jan 2017 Shrewsbury); another dau.

Book Reference: EAWL, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Rift Valley

War Service: Short time with Black Watch - France, Somme & Dardanelles. Tank instructor at end of WW1

General Information:

A Tank instructor at end of WW1, Engineer, worked with McNeil's Sugar Machinery, designed small sugar factory and was sent to erect this for Nottidge & Allen, Muhoroni. He was asked to stay on as Chief Engineer. Ethel was a model and Chief Buyer for a big store in Cheltenham. Her first husband - Henry Couchman, was killed in France 1914. Quote from Mrs C.M.G. Wilson - "My parents were also involved in the Gold Rush of the 30's, we helped a group to send a young man out, we had an old T Model Ford and that was put in order and picks and shovels and tinned food etc. We loved that old car - known as 'The Mudlark' (my father was one of very few settlers to own a car in the mid 20's). I do not think much came of the efforts!

Source: Mrs I.S. Smith, and Mrs C.M.G. Wilson

Ancestry family tree says wife died 1972 in Kisumu

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