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Name: TEMPLE-BOREHAM, Evelyn Wood MBE, MC (Major)
Nee: son of Dr John Richard Evans and his wife Evelyn Wood Evans who later m. Walter Temple-Boreham. Bro of Ernest Morris Wood Temple-Boreham
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1913 Dale House, Llandilo, Carmarthenshiret
Death Date: 21 or 28 May 1969 Kenya
Nationality: 30 Jan 1954 Ol Kalou
First Date: 1929
Profession: Stock Inspector, Veterinary Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1938. Originally Lab Student 1931. Game Ranger, Game Dept. In 1953
Area: Naivasha, Narok, Ngong
Married: Joan Katherine Pottinger b. 1912 Richmond, Surrey b. 4 Feb 1913 Kew, d. 7 Apr 1977 Nairobi (dau. of John Ashton Pottinger)
Book Reference: Sitrep 1, 2, Staff 39, Staff 53, Ruark, Rundgren, Morkel, Carson, Hut, Colonial, Darling, Kingsley Heath
War Service: Military service 1939-46, Major General List, Infantry (ACF Section) attached to KAR
General Information:
His mother's children's names were changed to Temple-Boreham upon her second marriage.
Masai Mara's first game warden.
Darling - Evelyn Temple-Boreham who knew, conversed with, and enjoyed the respect of the bush African in a way which I saw in very few other white men; his barazzas (council meetings) with the Masai laibon [sic] (chief priest) and elders were dignified, business-like, and charged with trusty good humour. …..
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters List expunged
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 199). RSM at the 1937 Ngong Hill Camp.
Gazette 20 June 1969 probate
?Gazette 1 Feb 1965 he required probate for his mother, who shared his name.
Gazette 24 Feb 1979 wife's probate
Morkel - probably the most efficient game ranger I have ever met in my roamings through Africa.
Kingsley-Heath - Former game warden of the Narok area of Kenya Masailand. Strict and stood for no nonsense. Acted as deputy chief game warden. Highly respected.
Ruark - A massive bloke with fierce moustaches who dislikes society hunters, by and large, and loves lions.
When he died he had just been promoted from Senior Game Warden, Narok Division, to Divisional Game Warden (Southern Division) 14 January 1969.
MBE 1 Jan 1959
MC 13 Sep 1945 "in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in Burma".
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