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Name: CORFE, David Walter Frederick
Birth Date: 1895 Kingston, Surrey
Death Date: 1932 Eldoret
First Date: 1920
Profession: BEADOC, then farmed and ran a duka (smal shop)
Area: Kericho, Hoey's Bridge
Married: In London 22 Dec 1919 Grace Barbara Marten b. Eltham 20 May 1896 (sister of Margaret Cecily Marten who m. Vivian Burdett Dowling) (she later married Archibald Gordon Grant 1897-1973)
Children: Richard Marten 'Dick' (Nairobi 14 July 1923)
Book Reference: Hut, Red 22, KAD, Red 31, Hut, Nicholson Memoirs
War Service: Rifle Brigade, badly wounded
General Information:
Hut - 1931 Kitale Jicho la Maji, partner with Dowling at Hoey's Bridge GD7
Red 31 has W.F. Corfe, Hoey's Bridge,
Hut - Walter F. Corfe 1931 Jicho la Maji, Hoey's Bridge partner with Dowling.
See also David Corfe who is probably the same person
Nicholson - The Dowlings and the Corfes ran the duka at Hoey's Bridge. David Corfe [wrong name] and Paddy Dowling came out under the British Disabled Officers Coop and were at Kericho growing flax - one of the ten partners brought in tea seeds from India and when planted he was made to take it out by the agricultural officer as it was not a scheduled crop. This land was later bought for very little money by Brooke Bond and became big tea plantations. BEADOC was abandoned and Paddy Dowling and the Corfes bought a farm at Hoey's Bridge from Afrikaners. Barbara Corfe and Peggy Dowling were sisters. David Corfe, badly wounded in WW1, died in 1932. Archie Grant married Barbara Corfe in 1935.
Eldoret cemetery He appears, erroneously, as DAVID, Walter Frederick Corfe