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Name: ANDERSON, David Laurie

Nee: son of David Anderson

Birth Date: 23 May 1898 Monifieth, Forfar

Death Date: 14 Oct 1957 Nairobi

First Date: 1923

Last Date: 1957

Profession: Farmer

Area: Nanyuki, 1924 Suguroi, Timau

Married: At Nanyuki Sports Club 6 Sep 1930 Sibyl Joicey Davis b. 27.2.1898, d.13.5.1964 (dau of Dr. Robert Davis)

Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Barnes, Wed

War Service: Black Watch

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 21/11/57 - Mr David Laurie Anderson, who has died suddenly in Kenya, arrived in the Colony in 1923 after having served through the 1914-18 war as a Regular officer in the Black Watch. He began farming on his own account near Timau, and in the last war served with the Uganda Battalion of the KAR in Ethiopia and Somaliland. Latterly he had lived in Nairobi.
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - David Laurie Anderson, British, age 59, died 14/10/57
Gazette 5/4/1938 - Honorary Game Warden
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare List

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