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Name: BELFRAGE, Colin

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Nee: son of James Beatson and Peggy Belfrage

Birth Date: 31 Oct 1916 Melbourne, Australia

Death Date: 29 Aug 2006 Emsworth, Hampshire

First Date: 1919

Last Date: 1986

Profession: Coffee and dairy farmer. Manager and later tenant on his father's farm which he inherited 1969. Sold 1977. Visiting Agent KPCU 1978-84.

Area: Mombasa 1919-23, Upper Kiambu 1933-77, Rosslyn, Nairobi 1977-86

Married: At Douai Abbey, Woolhampton 27 Apr 1946 Josephine Mary Sybilla Hadcock b. 31 Oct 1916 Queensland, Australia, d. 29 Aug 2006 Emsworth, Hampshire

Children: Anthony (1947 Kenya); Richard (1949 Kenya)

Book Reference: EAWL, Sitrep 2, Telegraph

War Service: Kenya Defence Force and Kenya Regt. before WW2. 6th KAR 1939-46 & 27 Bde. HQ., KPR 1950-62

School: Warden House, Nr. Deal, Kent and Dover College

General Information:

Tigoni Rifle Club and Brackenhurst Golf Club 1934-39. Holder of Hudson Cane Cup & Brackenhurst Bowl 1939. Kiambu, Limuru and Muthaiga Clubs at different times.  
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 130)

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