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Name: MURRAY, Harold Ashe (Lieut.-Col.)

Birth Date: 26 Mar 1881 Rokewood, Victoria, Australia

Death Date: 29 Oct 1958 at sea, SS Strathmore near Cocos Islands

First Date: 1932

Last Date: 1953

Profession: Professional soldier, mostly in India. Retired and farmed in Kenya. Constructed stills for essential oils, harnessing natural steam jets, using 60 gall. oil drums

Area: 'Manunga Estates', Naivasha; Karen

Married: In Poona, India 14 Sep 1930 Constance Edith Frost b. 7 May 1904 Fleggburgh, Norfolk, d. 10 Sep 1992 Reading

Children: Jennifer Caroline (Agnew) (17 May 1938 Nairobi)

Book Reference: Bovill, EAWL, Hut, Carnelley

War Service: Boer War and WW1 - Wiltshire Regt., N. Nigerian Regt . and Punjabi and Sikh Regt.

School: Haileybury College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

General Information:

2nd Wiltshire Regt., 1900; Boer War 1901; 1st Batn, N. Nigerian Regt. 1901-2; 31st Punjabis, 30th Punjabis, 2/35 Sikhs, 40th Pathans, 3/14 Punjabis, 5/14 Punjabis. - Source:- Mrs Agnew
Carnelley - Naivasha - In later years, up the road to Maiella, lived Colonel and Mrs Murray. He made quite a bit of money, distilling the wild lemon grass for essential oil, sold to Grasse in the South of France, using the natural steam from the jets near Hobley's Volcano. He used to dash around all over the place in a smart blue Studebaker saloon where now only a Land Rover would dare to go.
Hut - oil of lemon grass
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List
Gazette 17 Feb 1959 probate

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