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Name: COLOMBO, Antonio 'Tony'

Birth Date: 1900 northern Italy

Death Date: Aug 1976 Sweden

Nationality: Italian

First Date: 1922

Profession: Restaurateur

Area: Nanga Estate, Thika

Book Reference: Hut; email to C.S. Nicholls from Lars Asker 12/12/2018

General Information:

Antonio Colombo was born in northern Italia around 1900. Around 1922 he came to Kenya, worked on coffee estates around Thika and Ruiru, was interned (in South Africa?) during the second World War and on returning found that his wife had sold everything.
Starting from scratch he had restaurants in Mombasa and Nairobi. The last one, Dog Box in Koinange Str in Nairobi. He died on a vacation trip to Sweden in Aug 1976 where he is buried in Söderåkra in the South Eastern part of Sweden.
 
 

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