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Name: BOCK, Henry Arthur
Birth Date: 30.3.1906 Pretoria
Death Date: 10.1.1958 Nairobi
First Date: 1926
Last Date: 1958
Profession: Quantity surveyor, PWD 1927-39. Asst. General Manager Timsales, Nairobi 1945-58. Senior Asst. Quantity Surveyor, PWD, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1929. Originally Jun. Asst. Q.S. 1926
Area: Nairobi, Box 662
Married: At Makuyu church 1937 Pamela Myra Sequeira b. 4 Oct 1918, d. 2003 (dau of James Harry Sequeira and later Mrs Cedric 'Titus' Oates)
Children: Helen Denise (Drysdale); Terence John
Book Reference: EAWL, Staff 39, Red 31, Barnes, Dominion
War Service: Major E.A. Engineers (CRE's Office)
School: St. Edward's School, Johannesburg, SA. PASI, MCQS (SA)
General Information:
Source Address - see Mrs Myra Oates
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - H.A. Bock, British, age 51, died 10/1/58 KR 979
Dominion - Public Works Department - Loan Staff - Junior Assistant Quantity Surveyor - 1930
Mombasa Mbaraki cemetery - Henry Arthur Bock buried 11 Jan 1958, European Hospital, Coronary Thrombosis, Body sent to Nbi
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Henry Arthur Bock, Civil Servant, Box 662, Nbi
Gazette 8 July 1958 probate says he died 11 Jan
Denise Drysdale (daughter): He was a keen sportsman and helped develop facilities at Parklands Sports Club in Nairobi where he laid out the tennis courts and later organised the building of the swimming pool.