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Name: GREATHEAD, Kenneth Horatio 'Ken'
Nee: son of Helen Douglas Huntly Greathead and James Henry Horatio Greathead of Cape Province
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1910 Germiston, South Africa
Death Date: 14 May 1998 Albany, W. Australia
First Date: 1930 from S. Rhodesia
Profession: Factory manager
Area: Hut - c/o Mrs Kelbe, Eldoret, Kipkabus, Nanyuki
Married: 18 Jan 1936 Molly Clare Kelbe b. 9 Oct 1915 Cape Town, d. 21.12.2012 Albany, Australia (dau. of Dr Walter Edward Kelbe)
Children: Joan Eileen (Erith) (14 June 1939 Eldoret); James John Edward (22 Feb 1941 Eldoret); Kenneth Dudley (2 Dec 1942 Eldoret)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, Ken Greathead, Foster
General Information:
Ken Greathead (son) - Ken trained in South Africa as a Factory Manager and stayed with the Creameries and then KCC until 1945, from when he farmed full time in the Burnt Forest district near Eldoret. At one stage he had also owned a farm in Nanyuki. He and my mother migrated to Australia in May 1963. Lived in Albany.
Foster - Ken Greathead - 1930 practised as a dentist in Naivasha area after his farming collapsed due to the depression.
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 226).