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Name: DESREAUX, Harold Eugene

Birth Date: 12 July 1908 St Mary, Jersey
Death Date: 28 Mar 1935 Yala, blackwater fever
First Date: 1924
Profession: European Police Constable, Kenya Police in 1931
Book Reference: Habari 27
School: Cranford School, Wimborne
General Information:
Habari 27 - KPR 1931 - EPC Morant was transferred for temporary duty to Naivasha. Asst. Inspector Grant of Naivasha is sick in Nairobi Hospital …….. EPC Desreaux has relieved EPC Morant as Inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Gazette 4 June 1935 - probate
Kisumu cemetery - in memory of a brother officer Asst. Insp. H.E. Desreau who died at Yala River March 28th 1936, RIP.
Info from Tom Lawrence 1929 joins Kenya Police as Asst Inspector. Plays for police rugby club. 1933 on leave. 1934 appointed Claim Inspector under the Mining Ordinance 1933.
Nat Probate Calendar
Nat Probate Calendar
EAS 5 Apr 1935 When he came to Kenya he engaged himself to AS Wartnaby at Kitale as a farm pupil and remained there until November 1929, when he joined the Police at Nairobi. The whole of his first tour was spent in Nairobi. In 1933 he went to Europe on Longview, returning in October that year. From then until the end of April of last year he was stationed in Nairobi. He went to Yala in connection with the mining activities in the Number Two Area. In addition to his police duties he also acted as Claim Inspector. He was an all-round sportsman and excelled at hockey. Popular with his colleagues and recognized by his seniors as a keen and efficient police officer, he will be greatly missed.