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Name: BURRY, Richard Hersee Pullen

Birth Date: 24 Jan 1905 Sompting, Steyning

Death Date: 25 Mar 1962 Durban, suicide

First Date: 1937

Profession: Planter 1933; civil servant - ass. agric. officer, Sisal Services; company director in 1957

Married: 1. In Tendring 25 Jan 1930 Frances Rosina Jessica Dove b. 2 July 1905 Great Yarmouth, d. Nov 1986 Sunbury on Thames, Surrey (div. 1957); 2. . In Durban 28 Nov 1957 Bettye Shaw b. 27 Feb 1919 Morpeth; 3. Barbara Grace Lidwell b. 5 May 1909 Edmonton, d. 30 June 1998 Somerset West, S. Africa (div.) (prev. m. and div. John R. Wadman)

Children: Ann Frances (1935 Clacton on Sea-1935); John Richard (14 Dec 1938 Nairobi-2010); Sally Diana Frances (Lynch) (11 July 1942 Nairobi-28 Oct 2018 Wandsworth)

Book Reference: Last Chance, Sitrep 2

General Information:

Last Chance - (1948) - Sisal Farmer who stocked the Thika river with seven-inch rainbow trout that he caught himself in the Ndarugu River. Honorary Fish Warden

S. Africa Death cert says death due to barbiturate poisoning, suicide. He was then a caravan rank operator, retired company director
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 479). No birthdate in KR records
Blue Book 1946 appt. 1.1.1939
There is a correction by Jean French in Ancestry - Horace rather than Hersee, but all other records have Hersee. In 2nd marriage cert, Hearsee

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