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Name: REID, Arthur William 'Billy'
Birth Date: 22 Aug 1867 Liverpool
Death Date: 1 Dec 1956 Aberdeen
Nationality: British
First Date: 1897
Profession: Asst. Locomotive Superintendent (Stores), Uganda Railway, he was Chief Storekeeper in 1903, a position he held for a number of years
Area: Nairobi, Mombasa
Book Reference: Mills, Railway, Gillett, HBEA, Land 1903, EAHB 1905, KAD, EAS, North, Playne, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, Harmony, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Red 19
School: at Leicester and Stafford
General Information:
At one time Treasurer of EA Turf Club, Captain Nbi. Gymkhana C.C. 1901-03.
Mills Railway - 1897 - Nairobi - towards the end of the year Read, the Assistant Storekeeper, may have been in charge.
Uganda Railway; asst Storekeeper; arr. Mombasa Aug. 1897; Kilindini Feb. 1899
Land Grant 1903 - A.W. Reid - Building, 10 acres - Nairobi - Aug 25 - Freehold
EAHB 1905 - Chief Storekeeper, Uganda Railway, Nairobi. Asst. Store Dept., Mersey Railway, Liverpool, Jan. 1886; Chief in 1889; Asst. Storekeeper, Uganda Railway 1897; Senior Asst. 1899; Chief Storekeeper, 1903
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa ......... Mr A.W. Reid, chief storekeeper, has been on a visit to the Coast.
North - Uganda Railway - UK appt. as Asst. Storekeeper 23/7/1897; Asst. Loco Superintendent (Stores) 1897; One of 8 officials named by the 'Railway Strike Committee' as treating their subordinates with 'extreme discourtesy and tyranny' (CO 573) 31/3/1900; Acting Chief Storekeeper June 1900; Chief Storekeeper 1903; Land Grant application 25/8/1903 Nairobi; Treasurer of EA Turf Club 1901-3; recommended for permanent position after reorganisation of Railway staff - 'a conscientious and hard working Storekeeper' (Currie, FO 2) 12/11/1904
Playne - Mr Reid possesses the Royal Humane Society's medal and certificate for saving life. He was born at Leicester on August 22, 1867, and educated at Stafford. He arrived at Mombasa on Sept. 2, 1897, from England to take up the post of Assistant Locomotive Superintendent (Stores), Uganda Railway. He became Assistant Storekeeper, Uganda Railway, in August, 1897; Senior Assistant, 1899; and Chief Storekeeper, 1903. In England Mr Reid was Assistant, Store Dept., Mersey Railway, Liverpool in January 1886, and Chief in 1889. He was Hon. Treasurer, EA Turf Club, 1902-03, and Hon. Treasurer, Uganda Railway Rifle Club, 1908-9, as well as Captain of the Nairobi Gymkhana Cricket Club, 1901-03.
Playne - Group Photograph - 'Officers of the Uganda Railway 1909'
Drumkey 1909 - Railway Dept. - Locomotive Dept. - Assistant Loco. Superintendent (Stores)
Advertiser - 11/12/08 - Nakuru Agricultural Show - donations from - A.W. Reid
Member of Lodge Harmony - Joined 5/6/05
Red Book 1912 - A.W. Reid - Nairobi
Red Book 1919 - Railway Dept. - Chief Storekeeper