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Name: TALBOT-SMITH, Joyce Maud, Mrs
Nee: Bastard, dau of Segar Southey Bastard
Birth Date: 26.5.1921 Esperanza Farm, Nanyuki
Death Date: 11.8.2013 Ashford, Kent
First Date: 1921
Last Date: 1959
Area: Nanyuki, Karen
Married: 1. In Nanyuki 1.8.1942 Frank Derek Corfield (1902-1968) 2.1973 Patrick Talbot-Smith
Children: : Anthony Richard (21.10.1943 Nairobi-26.1.1982 S Africa); Roger Frank (20.9.1945 Kisumu); Timothy Derek (twin of Roger); Colin John Segar (26.5.1954 Nairobi)
Author: Husband F.D. Corfield - 'Historical Survey of Mau Mau'
Book Reference: EAWL, RS
War Service: FANY in EA from 1940-42
School: Kenya High School
General Information:
Bruce Rooken-Smith Joy attended Nanyuki Primary, Kenya Girls' High School, joined the FANYS where she was a driver at Comd HQ in Nairobi. She worked on the telephone exchange and also drove ambulances. Met and married Frank who was posted to El Obeid, Sudan (Kordafar). Frank served in Khartoum and was Governor of the Blue Nile. Frank and Joy retired to England. He was the author of the Corfield Report (Mau Mau). Farmed in Sussex (White Lodge) which Joy sold when Frank died. She developed her new home, ReachWood , from scratch and it was only just completed when she married Colonel Patricia Talbot-Smith who was in- volved in the planning of the 'D' Day landing.