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Name: KILKELLY, Charles Randolph
Birth Date: 7 Apr 1961 Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Death Date: 14 July 1953 Nakuru
First Date: 1929
Profession: Retired surgeon
Area: Menengai
Married: In Kensington 22 July 1893 Florence Mary Petre b. 21 Apr 1865 Chelmsford, d. 24 Jan 1956 Nakuru
Children: Edward Charles Randolph (19 Nov 1895 Farnborough-26 June 1917 Poperinghe, killed in action); Gerald Patrick (27 July 1900 London-24 Aug 1944 Brunswick, Hanover, Germany, in air raid as a prisoner of war); Stephanie (c.1900); Patricia Frances (Barclay) (22 Mar 1903 Godstone-1972 Nakuru)
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Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) Kilkelly, Surgeon Lt.-Col. Charles Randolph, C.M.G. (1900), M.V.O., J.P., M.B., B.Ch. (Dublin), D.P.H. (London), retired; s. of late Surgeon-General C. E.Kelkelly of Drimcong, Galway; b, 1861; educ; Downside College; Trinity College, Dublin; was a Surgical Travelling Prizeman; Gold Medalist Nat. Sci. Dublin University; was on the Personal Staff of Field Marshall H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught in India; was present with the Egyptian Campaign, 1898 (despatches, 2 medals and clasp): South African War despatches, 2 medals and 3 clasps, C.M.G. 1899-02; Principal Medical Officer Portland and Imperial Yeomanry Hospitals, Transvaal. Publications: Trans. Antiseptic system in Bilroths’ Clinic; Report I.Y. Hospitals, South-Africa. Address: Drimcong, Galway. Clubs: Guards, Royal Automobile.
FindaGrave Lt Col Charles Randolph Kilkelly BIRTH 7 Apr 1861 Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India DEATH Jun 1953 (aged 92) BURIAL Nakuru North Cemetery Nakuru, Nakuru, Kenya. Inscription: in loving memory / of / Charles Randolph Kilkelly / born April 1861 / died June 1953 / and / of his wife / Florence Mary / born April 1865 / died Jan 1956 / R.I.P.
His dau. Patricia Frances Barclay was also buried in Nakuru North cemetery.
History of Kilkelly Family Charles Randolph Kilkelly, the man who commisioned the family tree by Crossle. Charles Randolph was a man of considerable note being High Sherriff of Galway in 1914. He served as a surgeon major with the grenadier guards in 1898 in India and Africa. His son Edward was killed in action at Ypres during World War One at the age of twenty-one. He was said to be a benevolent landlord and was involved in a Moycullen co-operative society and store in Moycullen along with the rest of the local community. He set up a trust fund to aid those in need in that area. He sold Drimcong in 1927 and moved first to Canada and later to Kenya. Charles Randolph died in 1957 [error] and is buried in Kenya.