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Name: SCHLUTER, Gerald Edward OBE
Nee: son of Gerald Charles Schlüter
Birth Date: 18 Jan 1917 Nairobi ?Hendon
Death Date: 22 Apr 1979 Nairobi
Profession: Company director
Married: In Kiambu 31 May 1941 Elizabeth Evelyn Rosalie Galton-Fenzi b. 29 Aug 1920 Nairobi, d. 18 Apr 2017 East Sussex (dau of Lionel S. D. C. Galton-Fenzi and later m. Foot)
Children: Gillian Evelyn (Joynson-Hicks) (Viscountess Brentford) (22 Nov 1942); Anne Hilde; two others
Author: Elizabeth Evelyn Rosalie (Schluter and Foot) (29 Aug 1920 Nairobi-18 Apr 2017 East Sussex)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Rhodesia, Peerage
War Service: KAR
General Information:
Rhodesia - Mr Gerald E. Schluter, a director of the well-known family business, served throughout the 1939-45 war with the Kenya Regiment, the King's African Rifles, the East African Intelligence Corps, and the Military Administration of British Somaliland. He has since made many visits to Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, the Belgian Congo, and Ethiopia.
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 836)
Gazette 22 Aug 1980 probate