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Name: FORREST, Jack Raymond 'Bush'

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Birth Date: 27 Oct 1898 Leytonstone

Death Date: 6 Sep 1976 Village of Happiness, Natal, S. Africa

First Date: 1928

Profession: Education Officer, European Educ. In 1939, appointed 1930. Originally an Asst. Master 1928. Education Officer, Vice-Principal Prince of Wales School in 1953

Area: Kabete, Nairobi

Married: 1. In Nairobi 20 Dec 1934 Marjorie May Burge b. 4.10.1899, d.1972; 2. In Grahamstown, S. Africa 16 Aug 1974 Evelyn May Redhead née Hunter-Hardy b. 11 Dec 1905 Southend, d. 7 Dec 1979 Sandbach, Cheshire (prev. m. Cyril Howard Redhead 1898-1979)

Children: Jocelyn Martin (Nairobi 6.1.1937)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Staff 53, Red 31, Legion, Colonial, Harmony, Dominion

War Service: Military service 1917-19 and 1939-40, Major

School: Hackney Tech. Inst. & Sarisbury Ct. Teachers Training College

General Information:

Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 1/10/28, Schoolmaster, Nairobi; Rejoined 2/3/53, age 54, Schoolmaster, Prince of Wales School
Dominion - Education Department - Assistant Master - 1930
Gazette - 28/2/1928 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Manual Inspector, Education - J.R. Forest
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937 (KR 3).
Ancestry Passenger list 1955 Beira-London

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