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Name: PERREAU, William Arthur 'Bill'
Birth Date: 4 Feb 1903 Bath
First Date: 1925
Profession: Admin. Appointed as a DO in 1925. DC Kisumu in 1939
Area: Kericho, Kisumu, Meru, 1931 Thomson's Falls, Wajir, Kilifi
Married: Elsie Margaret b. Great Yarmouth, d. 3 Dec 1968 Nairobi
Book Reference: Golf, Staff 39, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Dominion
School: Cheltenham College and RMA Woolwich
General Information:
Dominion - District Officer - 1930
Prominent in the starting of Kericho Golf Club in 1927.
Blue Book 1926 appt 19.2.1926
Gazette - 22/7/1925 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Cadet, Administration - D.A. Perreau [sic]
Gazette - 26/2/1929 - Appointed Acting District Commissioner, Moyale District
Langata cemetery, Nairobi Elsie Perreau d. 3 Dec 1968
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 He sat behind a file stacked disk, hands clasped in a habitual posture behind a large head with tawny worried hair, displaying the sweat soaked armpits of a beige striped city shirt. He appeared in his later 40s and overweight for his stature. He looked to be preoccupied and overworked even as he rose courteously to greet me with a warm smile and a sigh. He was thoughtful, fair and decent and dismissive of the niceties which eased the path to service advancement.