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Name: SELBY LOWNDES, Gerald William
Nee: son of Geoffrey William Selby-Lowndes
Birth Date: 8 June 1905 Bletchley
Death Date: 20 May 1952 Nairobi, result of an accident
Profession: Mumias mines
Married: 1. In Kakamega Feb 1936 Pamela Humphreys; 2. In Buckinghamshire 1949 Dorris Eileen Courtney b. 7 June 1909, d. 7 Oct 1983 Eastbourne (prev. m. to Roger James Allen Courtney 1902-1949)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, Burke, Barnes
General Information:
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Gerald William Selby Lowndes, born 8 June 1905, died 20 May 1952 aged 47
Hut has Selby-Lownes 1933 Mines Mumias
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 844). No birthdate in KR records.
Did he also marry Pamela Gladys Humphreys, to whom he was engaged in 1936?
Terence Gavaghan, Of Lions and Dungbeetles, 1999 He was clearly of upper class and education. With his great cadaverous height and hawk nose he was like a Red Indian chief at the head of a totem pole. He was accompanied always by his faithful familiar, a black dog suggesting a difficult union between labrador and dachshund.