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Name: GRAY, Henry Albert

Short Name: otherwise known as Henry John Gray

Birth Date: 15 Mar 1875 Woolwich

Death Date: 25 July 1947 Mombasa

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1947

Profession: An Army Band Master in S. Africa. Came to Kenya after WW1 and worked at the Vet Lab at Kabete

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Simon's Town, S. Africa 5 Jan 1901 Gertrude Adelaide Hayward b. 1878 Ipswich, d. 1971 England

Children: Henry Walter (24 June 1903 Albany, Cape Province); Cyril Wiiliam (15 Sep 1904 Grahamstown-18 Oct 1989 Chobham, Surrey); Violet May (McQueen) (4 Sep 1901 Cape Colony-1980 Tavistock); Alice Lilian Rose (Heath, later Mrs Jock Flett (21 Mar 1906 Albany, Cape Colony-1994 Canada); Gertrude Evelyn (b. 1907 and Dorothy b. 1909 both lost in a ship torpedoed during WW1)

Book Reference: EAWL, KAD, Red 25, EAMR, Red 22, Dominion, Barnes, Red 19

War Service: EAMR has Harold J. C. Gray E Sqdn. 2/9/15

General Information:

Letter from Ingrid Gray 10 Nov 1994 His wife Gertrude went over to England from South Africa on holiday but when they tried to rejoin Henry at the start of the war the ship was torpedoed. Two of the little girls were put in a different lifeboat to the others and never seen again. After the war the family were reunited and lived in Kenya. with Henry and later his son Cyril working at the Vet Lab at Kabete.

Dominion - Agricultural Department - Veterinary Research - Laboratory Assistant - 1930

Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Henry John Gray died 25 Jul 1947 age 72, Nursing Home, Pneumonia, Heart Failure

Red Book 1919 - Veterinary Department - Laboratory Assistant - H.J. Gray

KAD 1922 - Laboratory Assistant, Veterinary Research Dept.

Gazette 16 Nov 1936 Voters List 1936 - Henry John Gray, Laboratory Asst., Kabete

Gazette 14 Oct 1947 probate required by Gertrude Adelaide [sic]

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