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Name: BARNES, Henry Aston
Birth Date: Jan 1890 Patrington, Yorkshire
Death Date: 16 Mar 1930 Nairobi
First Date: 1925
Last Date: 1930
Profession: Teacher at Kenton College
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Dublin 11 July 1918 Maud Olivia Mellon b. Dublin 13 Jan 1898, d. Mar 1975 Lambeth (in 1931 married Hugh George Cole 1888-1953)
Children: Harold Fitzherbert Aston (16 Dec 1921 Dorset-3 Oct 1944 Arnhem); Michael Wilfred Aston (6 May 1927-2003); Catherine (4 May 1929)
Book Reference: Barnes
School: Pembroke College, Oxford
General Information:
Trevor Barnes (grandson) Not long after he left Pembroke WW1 broke out and he went into the army. Unfortunately he was gassed in 1917 and this damaged his lungs greatly. He moved to Switzerland after the war for the air purity but then moved to Kenya (1925 I think) as the air was dryer and better for his health. He taught English at Kenton College Nairobi (which is still going). His lung condition grew worse though and he died in March 1930 aged just 40. My dad's brother Harold was killed in WW2 at Arnhem). After WW2 my dad returned to Kenya and I was born there in June 1958.
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Henry Aston Barnes, British, age 40, died 16/3/30