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Name: BULLER, Frederick Derick Edwin

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Nee: brother of John Frederick Buller, son of F.G. Buller, Rector of Oakford, Bampton, Devon

Birth Date: 14 July 1891 Burrough Green, Cambs

Death Date: 25 Sep 1914 killed in action Ingito Hill

First Date: 1909

Last Date: 1914

Profession: Took up land near Thika and farmed there

Area: Thika area, Hut has pre WW1 Farm 40, Eldoret, Kisumu, 1914 Eldoret

Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, EAMR, CWGC, Gazette, Nicholls, Burke, Eton, Web, Leader14

War Service: WW1 with EAMR - C Sqdn. 7/8/14. Killed in action 25 Sept 1914

School: Eton 1905-10 and Trinity College, Oxford

General Information:

CWGC - Nairobi British & Indian Memorial - Trooper 192, EAMR, who died on Friday, 25th September 1914. Age 23. Youngest son of the Rev. F.G. Buller, MA, and Mrs Buller, of Oakford Rectory, Bampton, Devon. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford
Gazette - 17/2/15 - Probate & Admin. - Frederick Edwin Buller of Uasin Gishu, killed in action Ingito Hills 25/9/14
Web - Cambridgeshire, Burrough Green, Roll of Honour - This memorial is inside the church - Frederick (Derick) Edwin Buller - 2nd Lt. 'C' Squadron, EAMR, British East Africa, died 25 september 1914 in Africa - 3rd son of Rev George Buller, rector of Oakford, Devon by his wife Margaret Mildred, dau of Sir John William Anson. Born Burrough Green, Cambs 14-7-1891, educated Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. On going down from Oxford in 1913 he bought a large farm in British East Africa, and on the outbreak of the European War immediately volunteered his services and joined the King's Mounted Rifles. He was killed in the fighting on 25 September 1914 in the Ingito Hills between the Magadi Railway and the frontier. It appears that a German force of about 35 Europeans and 150 natives, with 2 maxim guns, attacked a body of the EAMR (C squadron) only 30 in number, commanded by Capt. Chapman. After one hour's severe fighting in thick bush country the enemy were repulsed, and retired hastily towards Longido.  At Eton Buller rowed in his house fours, and at Oxford he stroked the winning trial eight in his first year.
Du Ruvigny's Roll of Honour

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