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Name: GLADWIN, Charles DCM

Birth Date: 1865 Grahamstown, S. Africa [?1856 Chippenham, Wilts - Family Tree on Ancestry]

Death Date: 5.6.1919 Nairobi

First Date: 1914

Last Date: 1919

Married: In Pretoria 18 Feb 1892 Caroline Amelia Best b. 1870 Queenstown, Eastern Cape, S. Africa, d. 4 Dec 1937 Nairobi

Children: Victor Charles (6 June 1898 Salisbury, S. Rhodesia-1969 Nairobi); Lionel Edwin (1904-4 Sep 1906 Pretoria); Alice Amelia (Pickering) (1905 Mombasa); Alexander Joseph (1906 Mombasa); Thelma Elizabeth Jane (Button) (1907 S. Africa-2 Dec 1997 Dianella, W. Australia); Eva

Book Reference: EAMR, Barnes, Medals, LG

War Service: WW1 with EAMR - D Sqdn. 10/8/14 - 17/11/14 - L/Cpl. 20/8/14; Cpl. 26/9/14; to EATC

General Information:

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - C. Gladwin, British, age ?, died 5/6/19 and Caroline Amelia Gladwin d. 4 Dec 1937
Medals - East African Pioneers Company - No. 3199, Pioneer
London Gazette - 3 March 1917 - Distinguished Conduct Medal - 3199 Pnr. C. Gladwin, E. African Pioneer Coy. - For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has performed consistent good work in carrying out several difficult bridging operations.
Ancestry story: The GLADWIN Family were of origin Welsh and settled in South Africa in 1890, in Durban, Natal.  In 1895, Charles Gladwin and a group of Settlers initiated the Great Wagon Trek from S. Africe North towards Kenya.  In 1897, they reached Rhodesia during what is historically known as the Matabele Rising.  This was a British Colony and for safety reasons the Trekkers were put in the British Fort.  It was in this Fort that VICTOR CHARLES GLADWIN was born on June 6th 1898 in Salsbury, Rhodesia. The Trek continued and the Trekkers reached Kenya in 1900 and settled there.  On September 27th, 1924, Victor Charles Gladwin married Olive Davenport in Nairobi, Kenya.On June 25th, 1931, June Olive Gladwin was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Olive Davenport was of origin British and was born in Warfdale, York, England on January 21 1896 and arrived in Kenya  in 1920.

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