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Name: HARVEY, Charles Alfred MBE (Capt.)
Birth Date: 13 Feb 1880 Paddington
Death Date: 11 July 1951 Nairobi
First Date: 1914 - ex Bandmaster Royal North Lancashires
Last Date: 1951
Profession: Bandmaster to KAR for many years, seconded to 3/KAR in 1916
Area: Nairobi, Box 40 Nairobi, Kenya Police Box 81 Nairobi, c/o Box 2784 Nairobi
Married: In Kensington 14 Aug 1909 Amy Amelia Matilda Allen b. 12 June 1884 Chelsea, joined him in 1919
Children: Amelia Beryl (Hewgill) (1910 Mhow, India); Charles Augustus (12 Mar 1913 Poona, joined Dept. of Mines, went to S. Africa)
Book Reference: Gillett, Moyse, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Legion
War Service: WW1 in GEA. 1916 posted to 3/KAR, 1894-1921, joined Kenya British Legion in 1936
School: Training at Kneller Hall
General Information:
Served in India with Loyal N. Lancs. Trained Africans to read music by his own unique method of using rupees and divisions thereof to represent quavers etc. 1920 formed first orchestra, members N.K. Kilminster, W.A. Nicholson, R.A. Hawkins Italian cellist named Cozzi.
Raised large part of funds for Memorial Hall, Nbi.
Moyse - Harvey had joined the West Riding Regt. as a drummer boy. Afterwards he was trained at Kneller Hall and served as a bandmaster in S. Africa, Burma and India. He became a well known figure at Nairobi, where he was known familiarly as 'George'. After leaving the KAR in 1924 he was employed by the KUR and later became bandmaster of the Kenya Police Band. He died in 1951.
Red 31 has C.A. Harvey, KUR, Nairobi
EAMR has C. Harvey C Sqdn. 9/9/14 - 27/4/15 - Sergt. 5/10/14
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Charles Alfred Harvey, Clerk, Railway Quarters, Box 40 and Ethel Doris Harvey, Housewife, Workshops Rd., Nbi [Ethel Doris is wife of Harry Harvey].
Gazette 7 Aug 1951 probate
FindaGrave Charles Alfred Harvey BIRTH 13 Feb 1880 Paddington, City of Westminster, Greater London, England DEATH 11 Jul 1951 (aged 71) Nairobi, Kenya BURIAL
City Park Cemetery Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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