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Name: HOPCRAFT, Arthur Wilfred
Photo Source: EAS 9 Apr 1937 for marriage
Nee: son of John Dawson Hopcraft
Birth Date: 1 Mar 1911 Kenya
Death Date: 29 Sep 1987 Naivasha
First Date: 1911
Last Date: 1987
Profession: Farmer at Naivasha
Area: Loldia Ltd. Naivasha
Married: In Nakuru 3 Apr 1937 Frances Mairo Low b. 19 July 1915 Kiambu, d. 2001 Naivasha (dau of Archdeacon Walter Percival Low)
Children: Heather; Sally Patricia (Church) (d. 2001); Jill; Richard (who in 1995 ran the farm at Naivasha)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, EAWL, Hut, Legion, O&C, Women in Kenya, Red Book 1912
War Service: Served in Ethiopia 1939-42 and then withdrawn to grow food for Italian POW's, 2/4 KAR, 2nd Lieutenant 1939-42
School: St. Claire Prep School; Sherborne School, Trinity College Cambridge 1930-33
General Information:
Mairo Hopcraft letter 14 May 1995 He obtained a BA in Agriculture at Cambridge. He returned to Kenya in 1932 to work on the farm where there was drought and locusts. Away in the war but was asked to come back and grow crops on the farm to feed the Italian prisoners of war who were camped at Navasha, in 1942. Became Chairman of the Naivasha Branch of the Kenya National Farmers' Union. Survived a very tough time as far as farming was concerned.
Red Book 1912 - A.W. Hopcraft - Naivasha
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 195). No birthdate in KR records.
Esther Eliza Hopcraft, Esther's Story, 1996 Wilfred was captain of cricket at Sherborne School, and at Cambridge went straight into the Hawkes Club, where the real sportsmen belonged; he also became captain of the Settlers cricket team in Nairobi. He ran Loldia farm.
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