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Name: PRANGLEY, Owen Frank
Nee: bro of Arthur Henry and Albert Edward Prangley
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1882 Fordington, Dorchester
Death Date: 23 Apr 1942 Nairobi
First Date: 1916
Last Date: 1942
Profession: Worked for Cearn & Co. and May & Co.
Area: Nairobi, Park House, Parklands.
Married: In Mombasa 2 Apr 1916 Constance Mabel Smith b. 27 Jan 1893 Paddington, d. 9 Mar 1966 Pietermaritzburg, Natal, S. Africa, nurse
Children: Jean Constance (Bate and Chrystall) (17 May 1918 Nairobi); Pamela Helen (2 Sep 1919 Nairobi-14 June 2008 UK); Peter John Matcham (2 Dec 1920 Nairobi-26 Nov 1943 RAFVR in air operations, buried in Berlin war cemetery); John Richard (15 Dec 1922 Nairobi-17 Mar 1989 UK)
Book Reference: HBEA, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Macmillan, Red 22, Barnes
General Information:
Macmillan - 1930 - May & Co. Ltd., The Sports House - Macmillan has C.M. Prangley
Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Owen Frank Prangley, British, age 60, died 23/4/42
KAD 1922 - c/o May & Co.
Red 25 - c/o J.R. Stephens & Co.
Red 31 - May & Co.
Gazette 3 Feb 1967 probate for Constance Mabel who d. Natal 9 Mar 1966
Peter Prangley (grandson): In 1944 Constance was made a SSStJ (now MStJ) and at the end of WW2 she received a commendation certificate from the British Red Cross and St John's Joint Committee in gratitude for 'services rendered to humanity'. At some time she became a farmer at Pabaraka, North Kinankop (where she grew pyrethrum and possibly raised beef cattle).
Gazette 1 Apr 1930 Constance Mabel was a telephone operator
Tom Lawrence: Flight Lieut. Peter John Matcham Prangley (111779) was with 550 Squadron (formerly 100 Squadron), and is buried in Collective Grave No. 4.J. 8-10 in Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery. He is recorded as being Sthe son of Owen Frank & Constance Mable Prangley; husband of Kathleen Scott Prangley, of Cheltenham, Gloucs. (CWGC Website). They are also on the International Bomber Command Centre memorial (Phase I, Panel 86) (RAF Commands website). He was the pilot of an Avro Lancaster III (Serial No. LM379) with markings BQ-S. The rest of the crew were Sergt. F.C. Diggle, Flying Officer G.H.R.F. Harris, . Sergt. R. Redfern and Sergt. A. Ward. They took off from Grimsby on the night 26th Nov 1943 (with1% moon) on a mission to bomb Berlin. Their plane was set on fire by flak and abandoned in the vicinity of Potsdam. Crashed nr. Oranienberg (RAF Commands website).
In 1944 Constance was made a SSStJ (now MStJ) and at the end of WW2 she received a commendation certificate from the British Red Cross and St John's Joint Committee in gratitude for 'services rendered to humanity'. At some time she became a farmer at Pabaraka, North Kinankop (where she grew pyrethrum and possibly raised beef cattle).
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