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Name: LLEWELLYN, John Malet CBE (Lieut.-Col.)
Nee: bro of Evan Henry Llewellyn
Birth Date: 25 Feb 1885 Brixham, S. Devon
Death Date: 8 Dec 1945 Nairobi
First Date: 1911
Last Date: 1945
Profession: KAR
Area: Iringa, Meru, 1925 Nairobi, 1930 Kathangi Est. Mitubiri
Married: In Marylebone 4 Apr 1939 Margaret Dorothy Pughe Maxwell b. 22 July 1890 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, d. 9 July 1963 Nairobi (widow of Marcuswell Maxwell 1890-1938)
Book Reference: KFA, Debrett, KAD, Red 25, HBEA, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Gazette, Barnes
War Service: Lt.-Col. Reserve of Officers (late Devonshire Regt); WW1 - wounded twice, despatches
School: Malvern College
General Information:
Gazette - 23/9/1914 - Appt. - Orderly Officer - Captain J.M. Llewellyn, KAR, to date September 3rd 1914
Nairobi City Park cemetery - John Malet Llewellyn, died 8 Dec 1945 aged 60. Inscription: John Malet Llewellyn C.B.E / Lt Col Devonshire Regt / 25 Feb 1885 / 8 Dec 1945 and / Margaret Dorothy Llewellyn / 22 July 1890 / 9 July 1963
Debrett - Farmer, sometime Lieut.-Col. King's African Rifles, and Comdg. troops in Kenya Colony.
KAD 1922 - Officer Commanding 5th KAR, Meru.
Red 25 - Committee Member, REAAA.
HBEA 1912 - Lieut. 1 KAR
Gazette - 18/6/1924 - Honours - Order of the British Empire - Hon. Lt-Col J M Llewellyn, to be a Commander
KFA - In partnership with Col. Swinton-Home and Russell Carr, imported in 1924, a large steam engine and an up-to-date roller mill which were installed at Soy.
Nairobi City Park cemetery - John Malet Llewellyn, died 8 Dec 1945 aged 60. Inscription: John Malet Llewellyn C.B.E / Lt Col Devonshire Regt / 25 Feb 1885 / 8 Dec 1945 and / Margaret Dorothy Llewellyn / 22 July 1890 / 9 July 1963
Debrett - Farmer, sometime Lieut.-Col. King's African Rifles, and Comdg. troops in Kenya Colony.
KAD 1922 - Officer Commanding 5th KAR, Meru.
Red 25 - Committee Member, REAAA.
HBEA 1912 - Lieut. 1 KAR
Gazette - 18/6/1924 - Honours - Order of the British Empire - Hon. Lt-Col J M Llewellyn, to be a Commander
KFA - In partnership with Col. Swinton-Home and Russell Carr, imported in 1924, a large steam engine and an up-to-date roller mill which were installed at Soy.
Sir Geoffrey Archer, Personal & Historical Memoirs of an East African Administrator, 1963 1907 at Loiyangelani. Spent a couple of days there and was much impressed by the high sense of duty of the military officer in charge. Jack Llewellyn was out on his parade with his fifty or sixty men at 6:30 in the morning, as though he were under the eye of his commanding officer at Nairobi (an elder brother as it so happened), and as speak and span as could be with highly polished buttons and rank badges on his bush shirt.