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Name: TYLER, Harold William FRGS
Birth Date: 22.7.1877 Leytonstone
Death Date: 1954 Worthing
First Date: 1899
Profession: Appointed to the Telegraph Department of the Uganda Railway he was Superintendent of Uganda Telegraphs in 1902.
Area: Wadelai, Entebbe
Married: In London 28 Oct 1905 Annie Marsh b. 4 Oct 1882 London
Children: Anne S. (1 May 1908)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, North, EAHB 1904
War Service: RE
School: Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, Rochester. AMICE
General Information:
EAHB 1905 - Postal and Telegraph Service, Exeter, Dover and Southampton 1892-96; Superintendent Engineer's Office, Postal and Telegraphs, Southern District London 1896-99; Telegraph Dept., Uganda Railway, Aug. 22nd 1899; transferred to the Uganda Protectorate, 1900; Asst. Superintendent of Uganda Telegraphs, 1902
North - Telegraph Signaller, RE, from Forest Gate Essex; UK appt. as Telegraph Signaller & seconded to Uganda Railway 29/6/1899; Listed with English Subordinates 'Telegraph Signaller' Dec 1899; Military Signaller, Telegraph Dept. 30/9/1900; transferred from the Uganda Railway to UP and appt. Asst. Superintendent of Telegraphs, on probation 1/4/1901; aged 27, invalided home from Wadelai, very deaf; end of appt. June 1905; 'a commonly known ungraciousness of manner' (Hayes-Sadler, FO 2)
EAHB 1905 - Asst. Supdt. of Telegraph, Wadelai also shown as Asst. Supdt. of Telegraphs, Hoima
1939 England and Wales Register living, retired, in Worthing with wife and dau.