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Name: TURNBULL, Harold
Birth Date: 7 July 1885 Streatham, London
Death Date: 1 Mar 1920 Nairobi, electrocution
First Date: 1913
Last Date: 1920
Profession: East African Standard newspaper, engraver
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Kenya 1922 Margaret Paton Drysdale b. 1889 Maryhill, Lanark, d. 7 July 1948 S. Africa (prev. m. Claude Gould)
Children: Harold Drysdale (20 July 1917 Nairobi-1999 Truro)
Book Reference: Gazette, Barnes
General Information:
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - H. Turnbull, East African Standard
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Harold Turnbull, British, age 35, died 1/3/20
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for death
He was electrocuted while at work. He was responsible for pictures in the East African Standard. He had connected an iron to a lamp in his dark room (to iron his clothes) which led to his death.