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Name: HOOK, Charles Campbell (Capt.)

Birth Date: bapt. 3.11.1872 Croydon

Death Date: 30.6.1905 Mombasa, blackwater fever

First Date: 1905

Last Date: 1905

Profession: Gaoler

Area: Mombasa

Book Reference: Drumkey, North, Barnes

General Information:

North - Formerly 3rd Batt. Queen's West Surrey Regt. & District Commissioner in Lagos; arr. Mombasa 12-1-1905; Firearms registered at Mombasa 13-1-1905; Appt. Deputy Superintendent Mombasa Prison 23-2-1905; Medical Report - 'not a teetotaller …. general physique poor' (Dr. S.R. Walker, CO 533) 31-5-1905; declared unfit for service in EA & to be invalided home 2-6-1905; died 30-6-1905, Mombasa Hospital, blackwater fever, aged 36, buried at Mbaraki
Mombasa Cemetery - 30 Jun 1905, Charles Campbell Hook Capt., aged 46, Fort, blackwater fever, Gaoler - sacred to the memory of / Charles Campbell Hook / youngest and dearly loved / son of the late / Henry Ware E Hook and his wife Isabel / who died at Mombasa on the 30th June 1905 / aged 32 / and with the morn those angel faces smile / which I have loved long and lost awhile
Drumkey 1909 - Dep. Supdt of Gaol, EAP
Gazette - 1/7/1905 - Obituary - It is with deep regret that the death is announced of Captain Hook of blackwater fever at the Hospital Mombasa on 30 June.
He served in the 3rd Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment from 1893-1896 when he was appointed to the Lagos Constabulary. After two years service in Lagos he was invalided home. In 1902 he was appointed Captain in the 6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and afterwards entered the service of the Egyptian Government in the Department of Public Markets.
Resigning his position in Egypt he came to East Africa on 17 February 1905 was appointed Jailor of the Mombasa Jail and on the 23 of the same month Deputy Governor. His service on the West Coast had seriously undermined his constitution and he was unable to withstand a severe illness. Though he had only been a short time in Mombasa he was rapidly winning the friendship and esteem of all and by his death the Protectorate loses an officer of great promise.

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