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Name: LEWIS, William Leonard MBE
Birth Date: 7.9.1894 Greet, nr. Tenbury
Death Date: 1990 Powys
First Date: 1919
Profession: Stock Inspector, Veterinary Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1935. Originally Stock Insp. 1919. Senior Livestock Officer in 1953.
Area: Maralal, Meru, 1930 Kisii, 1921 Rumuruti, 1922 Songhor
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Harmony, Dominion
General Information:
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 2/11/31, age 37, Civil Servant, Vet Dept., died 5/2/90
Dominion - Agricultural Department - Veterinary - Stock Inspector - 1930
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
KAD 1922 - Stock Inspector, Veterinary Dept., Songhor
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 He was driven like a bull buffalo by a compulsion to break all records inoculating Kamba range cattle against the decimating disease of rinderpest, so rampantly destructive of Maasai herds. He performed prodigies without proper transport or equipment, inspiring his scouts to exhaustion by his dominant example to catch, to hold, to stab with life saving needles.