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Name: UNWIN, Charles Harold (Capt.)

Birth Date: 14.6.1876 Wigan

Death Date: 1939

First Date: 1905

Profession: KAR

Married: In London 1915 Winifred Woodman Wilson b. 17 Apr 1874 Walton Le Dale, Lancs., d. 29 Dec 1921 Innsbruck (prev. m. to Francis Ellis b. 1869)

Book Reference: Drumkey, EAHB 1906, North

War Service: Lancashire Fusiliers

General Information:

North - Joined KAR 14/12/1904; arr. Mombasa from BCA with 1st Batt KAR & dep. for Mazeras 12/7/1905; invalided from Nandi to Nairobi 11/12/1905; 'The type of man I despise …. a gross coarse beast both physically and morally' (Meinertzhagen, RH)
Drumkey 1909 - Subaltern, 1st KAR
Cambridge Univ. Alumni: CHRIST'S, Sept. 23, 1896. S. of John Brooke, M.D. [of Rugby]. B. [June 14, 1877], at Wigan, Lancs. School, private. >Matric. Michs. 1896. Second Lieut., the Lancs. Fusiliers, 1899; Lieut., 1900. Served in the South African War, 1899-1902. Captain, 1905. Transferred to the West Riding Regt., 1908; employed with King's African Rifles, 1904-6. In the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regt.); wounded; mentioned in despatches). Retired before 1930. (Peile, II. 812; Army Lists.)
[his army records say he was born in 1876, not 1877]

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