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Name: HOPE-BAILIE, Archibald Bowker
Birth Date: 21 Oct 1884 Basutoland
Death Date: 24 Nov 1947 Durban
First Date: 1905
Profession: Farmer
Area: 1920 Farm 21 Kitale
Married: In Mombasa 1916 Sybella Frances 'Evelyn' Richardson b. 22 Sep 1893 Bathurst, S. Africa
Children: Frances Mary Eleanor (Darné) (17 Dec 1917 London-15 May 2011 Maricopa, Arizona); Alexander Thomas Archibald (14 Feb 1921 Durban-24 Feb 1966 Natal); Eileen Daphne (Fickling) (20 Aug 1922 UK); Barbara Dorothy (Mingay) (20 Feb 1927 Ladysmith, Natal; Koré Elizabeth (Agar) (30 Nov 1929 Richmond, Natal-2 Sep 2014 Melbourne, Aust.)
Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, EAMR, Gazette, Bowkers, LG
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - E Sqdn 8/8/14 - 11/11/14 - Lieut. 10/8/14
General Information:
Gazette - 23/9/1914 - Appt. - To be Lieutenant, East Africa Mounted Rifles - A.B.H. Bailie [sic]
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - Permitted to resign his appointment to date 11th November 1914
Gazette - 11/8/1915 - Appt. - EA Transport Corps - To be Lieutenant - Archibald Hope Baillie
Bowkers - purchased a farm in Kenya but did not settle there. He was commissioned in Bowker's Horse (EAMR) in German East Africa and afterwards he became an officer in the Irish Guards. Latterly he lived in Durban, Natal, where he died a few years ago.
London Gazette - 23 Feb 1917 - granted temporary rank for service with the Forces in East Africa - as Captain