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Name: BOILEAU, Edmund Knyvett
Nee: bro of Colin Campbell Boileau and son of George Wilson Boileau
Birth Date: Apr 1875 Hethel Hall, Norfolk
Death Date: 18.10.1917 Tanganyika on active service, killed by sniper
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1917
Profession: Junior Staff Surveyor, Survey Dept.
Area: Nairobi
Married: Unmarried
Book Reference: HBEA, Letter, CWGC, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1907, All Saints, Leader14, Web, Colonial, Red Book 1912
War Service: Royal Engineers
General Information:
Letter from A. Rehm to G. Bunting dated 22nd January 1909 from Nairobi mentions 'Bessler & Boileau are made Junior Staff Surveyors, but Bessler is still in the Drawing Office. …..'
CWGC - Dar es Salaam War Cemetery - Captain Edmond Kenyvett Boileau, Royal Engineers. 18th October 1917. 6.L.3
Advertiser - 6/11/08 - Mr E.K. Boileau's horse "Bucephalus" died of horse sickness
EAHB 1907 - Nairobi (Egerton)
All Saints - Memorial to Members of the Survey Dept who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-18 - Capt. E.K. Boileau
Leader14 - Senior Staff Surveyor, Cadastral Branch, Survey Dept.
Web - Joined Army in UK in 1915 as 2 Lieut. In Royal Engineers; rose to Captain in the Topographical Section
Colonial 1912 - Cadastral Survey - Junior Staff Surveyor
Red Book 1912 - E.K. Boileau - Fort Hall
Red Book 1912 - Survey Dept. - Junior Staff Surveyor
Lindsay Frederick Braun: His appointment date as Assistant to Surveyor, and then Assistant Junior Staff Surveyor, Survey Dept of Kenya (Cadastral Branch), is given as 1 Feb 1907 in the British East Africa Protectorate Blue Book for the Year Ended 31st March, 1907 (Nairobi: Government Printing Press, 1907), page N-115. He is listed as a ‘temporary’ appointment in 1907 and early 1908, although I don’t know if he was on the Uasin-Gishu Allotment Board push or not (but it’s more than likely he was; they made a whole labor-intensive series of 1/62,500 maps for alienating land to Europeans precisely). His promotion to Junior Staff Surveyor was effective 10 July 1908, per the 1909 Blue Book (same title but with 1909), page N-149. His appointment had become permanent, and his pay rose by over a third (to 250 UKP plus house allowance), with that promotion. His promotion to Senior Staff Surveyor was effective 1 Feb 1913, per N-88 in the 1915 Blue Book, with a pay raise to 350. His enlistment as an RE came later, as he is given (page N-91 in the 1916 Blue Book, the last before 1926) as taking leave from 2 Sep 1915 to 31 Mar 1916—the latter being the end of the fiscal year. He remained Cadastral Branch at all times.