EA & Rhodesia - 11/6/59 - Mr Joseph Granville Squiers, of Edgware, Middlesex, who has died in a London hospital at the age of 68 after 3 months of illness, went to Kenya as a young man to train as a farmer, but two years later, when war broke out in 1914, he promptly joined the East African Mounted Rifles, serving with that corps in a number of clashes with the Germans on the Kenya-German East Africa border. In 1917, by which  time he had been commissioned, he was attached to the South African Forces as a scout and interpreter in Swahili. After the cessation of hostilities he travelled widely in Tanganyika Territory and was then for two years manager of the Rufiji Delta Trading Company. He spent two years in the mangrove swamps at the mouth of the Rufiji and then returned to London where he became a free-lance journalist, lecturer, broadcaster, and documentary film producer. Three of his lectures which were widely appreciated were called "African Travel Talks", "My African Wanderings", and "Two years in an African Mangrove Swamp", each of which was made arresting and witty. Squiers had natural gifts of humour, observation, description and mimicry, and he was a real success on the platform. ……..  He is survived by Mrs Squiers and a son.

Gazette 26 Apr 1949 wife's probate

Death notice in press (Ancestry) has husband of Louise (wife's 2nd forename)

1939 England and Wales Register living, as author and lecturer, in Harrow with Constance L. Squiers b. 1 Dec 1896 and Louisa E. Richardson b. 23 Mar 1913, domestic help