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Name: TWEEDIE, Paul Peregrine

Nee: son of Douglas Royle Tweedie

Birth Date: 20 Dec 1921 Alexandria, Egypt

Death Date: 15 Jan 1946 Musoma, Tanzania

First Date: 1921

Profession: Pembroke No. 44, 1929, Caves of Elgon, P.O. Kiminini

Book Reference: Pembroke, Web

General Information:

Gazette 22 Apr 1947 probate
Nat Probate Calendar

Tom Lawrence: He joined the Kenya Regiment (KR 1062). There were a great number of Tweedies who joined the Kenya Regiment at the same time -John Norman (581), Graham Calderwood (998), Douglas Noel (1013), Gordon David (1229), and Bruce Clement (3034), who all would have done their bit in WWII (The Last Colonial Regiment, by Ian Parker). John Norman Tweedie was his uncle (father’s brother) (www.tweedie.com).
Douglas Royle Tweedie of Kitale applied to the Supreme Court of Nairobi for the letters of administration for the estate of Paul Peregrine Tweedie (d. Musoma, 15th Jan 1946) (Gazette, 22nd April 1947, p. 210).
Memorial: Nairobi Memorial -Column 9. The inscription at the base of the memorial says “The soldiers named on these four columns lie buried elsewhere in Kenya and are honoured here among their comrades who died with them in the service of their country” (CWGC Website).

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