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Name: WYNDHAM, Walter Yarrowyck

Birth Date: 29 Nov 1870 Armidale, NSW, Australia

Death Date: 23.12.1942 Port Elizabeth, S. Africa. Buried in Watchet, Somerset

Nationality: Australian

First Date: 1899

Profession: Accountant, Uganda Transport; dep. Mombasa for Zanzibar 25/12/1899, returned with 120 porters for Uganda 30/12/1899; home leave 1901/2; transferred from Entebbe to be Asst. Collector at Masaka 13/8/1902; Appt. Asst. Collector UP 29/8/1902

Area: Entebbe, Masaka, Wadelai

Married: In Bombay 25 Oct 1907 Margaret Walpole b. 28 July 1873 Westminster, d. 8 Feb 1964 Itteringham, Norwich (dau of Horatio George Walpole)

Book Reference: North, EA Diary 1903, Gazette, EAHB 1904

General Information:

North - transferred from Masaka to be Acting Collector Wadelai 4/3/1903; Appt. Collector UP 1/4/1904; suspended from duty after seriously injuring native by shooting into canoe - 'utter callousness' (Hayes-Sadler, FO 2) 30/4/1904; aged 33, to be invalided home by next steamer - 'a peculiar and excitable person' (Hayes-Sadler, FO 2) 26/5/1904; resigned 4/7/1904; 'There is family history of insanity …. mother had religious mania and father ran off to join the blacks in the outback' (Medical Report, FO 2)
Gazette - 1/5/1902 - Played for 'The Rest' in a cricket match against the EA Protectorate
EAHB 1904 - Accountant, Uganda Transport Sept. 1899; passed in Hindustani Sept 28 1900 and Arabic June 13 1901; Acting Asst. Collector Uganda Protectorate May 14 1902; Asst. Collector

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