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Name: PITT, Bernard OBE (Major)
Birth Date: 1880 Croydon
Death Date: 24 June 1927 Genoa
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1927
Profession: c/o Motor Mart and Exchange
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. In Camberwell 1903 Daisy Letitia Bowden b. 25 July 1882 Thornton Heath, Surrey, d. 11 May 1918 Nairobi; 2. In Marylebone 15 Dec 1920 Ethel May Bond b. 1888 Ealing, d. 5 Jan 1949 Mombasa
Children: 1. Mary (Hobson-Matthews and then Mitford-Barberton) (28 Feb 1906 Bexhill on Sea-26 Apr 1985 Kitale); Charles (1908 Winscombe, Somerset-1963)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 22, Gazette, Burke, mini-SITREP XXXIII, Red Book 1912, LG, Gazette
General Information:
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Carrier Corps - To be Lieutenant - Lieutenant Bernard Pitt
mini-SITREP XXXIII - Legion of Frontiersmen - 1912 - Adjutant
Red Book 1912 - B. Pitt - Kericho
London Gazette - 18 Nov 1918 - OBE for distinguished service in connection with military operations in East Africa - Major Bernard Pitt, EA Carrier Corps
Gazette 9/6/1920 - Dissolution of Partnership between Bernard Pitt and C.R. Billiter trading as The Nairobi Motor Engineering Co. - Business taken over by Messrs Braithwaites Ltd.
Gazette - 26/7/1927 - Probate and Administration - Bernard Pitt late of Nairobi who died at Genoa on 24 June 1927
Nairobi South cemetery - Daisy Pitt, died 11 May 1918, 1st wife of Major Bernard Pitt. Grave entry has ?Margaret
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery Ethel May Pitt b. 1889, d. 5 Jan 1949, malaria and heart failure. Inscription: in / loving memory of / Ethel May Pitt / widow of / Bernard Pitt / who passed away / 5th January 1949