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Name: BARRETT, William Edward Hawkes (Col.)
Birth Date: 24 May 1878 West Bengal, India
Death Date: 26 Jan 1951 Surrey
Nationality: British
First Date: 1902
Profession: He served first with the KAR and in 1906 joined the Provincial Administration, serving thereafter in most parts of the Protectorate. Moyse - commanded No 4 column of the punitive expedition of the large Nandi Field Force of 1905
Area: All over Protectorate. HBEA 1912 ADC, Marsabit, EAHB 1905 - 3rd KAR, Nairobi, 1914 Marsabit, Kacheliba, 1922 DC Narok
Married: Ellen Ronald b. 18 Jan 1870, d. 3 Oct 1958 St Leonards on Sea, matron, Govt. Hospital, Nairobi
Book Reference: Hut, SS, Gillett, HBEA, Sitrep 6, Moyse, Kenya Diary, White Man, EAHB 1905, KAD, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, Web, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, Leader14, Red 19
War Service: Connaught Rangers/KAR
General Information:
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut.-Col. W.E.H. Barrett, Wiveton Hall, The Marina, Boscombe, Bournemouth, and c/o Cox & Co., Charing Cross, SW1 - Farm 910
KAD 1922 - District Commissioner, Kacheliba.
Hut has 1909 ADC Kacheliba
Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - Jubaland 1917-18 - This bar was awarded to 5 & 1/6 KAR and No 1 Section 9 (Murree) Mountain Bty. for service under Lt. Col. W.E.H. Barratt (KAR), Maj. E.G.M. Porcelli (DCLI), Capts J.F. Wolseley-Bourne and O. Martin (KAR), in military operations - 1917/18 - against the Northern Aulihan tribe west of the Juba river, or north or east of a line Waregta - Lake Abeleni - Lorian Swamp - El Wak - Dolo.
Moyse - 1917 - Res. of Officers - commanding 5 KAR
Kenya Diary - Nairobi - Jan. 1903 - 'the pugnacious but attractive red-haired Barrett.'
White Man - Early in 1909 an assistant DC (Capt. Barrett) with an escort of KAR, went up to Moyale from Jubaland to relieve the Greek Frontier Agent, Mr Zaphiro, who was recalled to Addis Ababa...…
KAD 1922 - District and Resident Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Narok
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa
North - has Barret; arr. Mombasa from India 19-4-1902; dep. Mombasa for Nairobi 28-4-1902.
Web - British Perspectives on Aulihan Somali Unrest in the East Africa Protectorate, 1915-18 by George L. Simpson Jr. - description of his activities in the NFD at this time. ….. 1918 - Soon thereafter, William Barrett was invalided home owing to "intense mental depression" ?
EAHB 1906 - Subaltern 3rd KAR April 5th 1902; Captain, October 16, 1903
North - Resident at Nairobi 31-12-1904; to be appt. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Dec 1905
North - 'The pugnacious but attractive red haired Barrett' (Meinertzhagen, RH)
Web - buried at Richmond Cemetery - 31 Jan 1951
Red Book 1919 - Capt W E Barrett - DC, Secretariat, Nairobi
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Richmond, Surrey
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