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Name: PRATT, Ernest Reginald (Col.)

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Birth Date: 4 Jan 1891 Deddington, Oxfordshire

Death Date: 13 June 1971 Limuru

First Date: 1914

Last Date: 1971

Profession: Member of Education Dept., Headmaster of Nakuru Govt. School for several years. On leave pending retirement in 1939. Appointed Education Officer (Primary) 1919. Originally Ag. Headmaster 1914

Area: Nairobi, Nakuru. Retired to farm at Limuru - 'Ndirini'

Married: 1. Hilda Mary Simmonds b. 15 May 1897 Exhall, Warwickshire, d. 29 Dec 1924 Nakuru; 2. In Nakuru 1927 Lilian Ellen Oliver b. 9 Mar 1895 Shrewsbury, d. 22 Nov 1965 Limuru

Children: Elizabeth Anne (Fowler) (7 Nov 1928 London-24 July 1917 Nairobi); Margaret (1930); Rosemary J. (1933)

Book Reference: Gillett, Staff 39, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Red 22, Murders, Dominion, Masonic, Barnes, Barton, Rift Valley, Red 19

War Service: WW1 with EAMR - A Sqdn. 25/10/15

General Information:

Murders - Head Master of the Nakuru School that Ross [murderer of two Nakuru ladies] attended after his arrival in the Colony from England.
Dominion - Education Department - School Principal - 1930
Masonic - District Grand Standard Bearer - 1941
Barton - Nakuru School - The Headmaster, Mr Pratt, later became Col. Pratt and was in charge of the East African Military Labour Service (EAMLS). My father served under him during the Second World War in the East African Campaign in Somaliland and Abyssinia.
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 9 Aug 1919 - E.R. Pratt
Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - E.R. Pratt - Head Master - Nakuru
Red Book 1919 - Education Dept. - Nairobi - Master
KAD 1922 - Head Master
Gazette 14 Dec 1965 2nd wife's probate
Nat Probate Calendar
1939 England and Wales Register living in Kerrier, Cornwall, with wife
All Saints Church, Limuru cemetery - Ernest Reginald Pratt, 1891 - 1971 AND Lilian Ellen Pratt, beloved wife of E.R. Pratt, died 22/11/1965 aged 70
Nakuru North cemetery Hilda Mary Pratt d. 1924 aged 27

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