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Name: GOWER, Joshua Reginald
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1891 Tunbridge Wells
Death Date: 30 Aug 1959 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
First Date: 1925
Profession: Farmer
Area: Gilgil, 1925 Rumuruti
Married: In Wartburg, New Hanover, S. Africa 20 Mar 1929 Laura Edith Buttemer b. 1893 Frere, KwaZulu-Natal (later m. Tom McFarlane Allen 1891-1940)
Children: Felicity Anne Glossop (15 Jan 1931 S. Africa-14 May 2018); Catherine Isabel (1 Oct 1932-9 Oct 1932 Pietermaritzburg); Robert Abel Anthony (30 Sep 1935 Pietermaritzburg)
Book Reference: Red 25, Hut
War Service: E York Regt.
General Information:
Gazette - 19/8/1925 - Dissolution of Partnership between Major Charles Thomas Cook Beecroft and Capt. Joshua Reginald Gower carrying on business as Farmers at Laikipia and Gilgil under the style and firm of Beecroft and Gower.
He was a clerk on his death cert.