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Name: COLE, Hugh Gordon
Birth Date: 5 May 1887 Parsons Green, London
Death Date: 1953 Wandsworth, London
First Date: 1930
Profession: Avenue Hotel manager, but left before 1932
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. Anna d. 2 July 1929 Eldoret; 2. Maud Olivia Mellon b. 13 Jan 1898 Dublin, d. 1975 Barnes (previously m. to Henry Aston Barnes 1890-1930)
Children: Estelle (1921); Eric (1931)
Book Reference: Red 31, Gazette
War Service: East African units
General Information:
Gazette 4/4/1917 - High Court Case - Benjamin Newman vs Hugh Gordon Cole
Red 31 has Hugh George Cole, but Gordon is correct
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Wandsworth as 'Clerk, HM Office of Works'
1932 declared bankrupt as lessee of the Edward Hotel, Ngara Road, Nairobi. Was living at the Salvation Army Hostel.