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Name: COLLINS, Reginald Leonard

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Nee: son of Leonard Collins

Birth Date: 7 Apr 1922 London

Death Date: 21 July 2016 Redhill, Surrey

First Date: 1925

Last Date: 1963

Profession: Tusker Brewery, Kenya & Uganda Customs - EA Customs & Excise; retired as Regional Commissioner. Worked in Nairobi for Kenya Breweries in 1946/47 and then for EA Customs & Excise until 1963

Area: Mombasa, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Tanga

Married: In Lichfield 29 Dec 1945 Faith Owen Turner b. 29 Jan 1925 Burton on Trent, d. 23 Apr 2018 Redhill, Surrey (she went to Kenya in 1943 with the WRNS)

Children: Jane Lesley (Cameron) (Turner) (1947)

Book Reference: EAWL, Colonial

War Service: 1940 Kenya Defence Force, Kenya Regt. KR 1403; RAF 1942

School: Lindisfarne College, UK

General Information:

Source: Mrs Jane Lesley Cameron
Colonial - Exam. Offr. Cadet Kenya and Uganda 1940; Exam. Offr. 1947; Collr. Customs EACSO 1949; Senr. Collector 1955; Principal Collr. 1957; Regl. Comsnr. 1962-63
Boarding school in England, returned to Kenya 1939, Joined Kenya Regiment 1940. Later in RAF, but returned to Kenya to keep reserved occupation in Kenya Customs Dept. 1942.

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