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Name: HOPCRAFT, Robert Dawson
Nee: son of John Dawson Hopcraft
Birth Date: 11.10.1914 Nairobi
Death Date: 2.3.1987 Tauranga, New Zealand
Profession: Farmer, clerk, worked for Caltex
Married: Audree
Book Reference: Sitrep 1, 2, Hut, mini-SITREP XIV, Wolseley-Lewis
School: Sherborne School
General Information:
Wolseley-Lewis - After WW2 - Bobs and his elder brother Wilfred were running the farm Loldia down by Lake Naivasha. Their parents, JD and Emmie were living there too.
mini-SITREP XIV - Commissioned in Kenya Regt. In 1939
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. In 1937. (KR 60).
Esther Eliza Hopcraft, Esther's Story, 1996 He was on the Settler's cricket team in Nairobi. He did not go to university because his father could not afford it.