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Name: RAY, Eric Geoffrey Mervyn
Nee: only son of Mervyn and Norah Ray, grandson of Ernest and Mary Fey
Birth Date: 4 June 1920 Kampala
Death Date: 22 Feb 1945 Mount Kenya
Area: Nakuru, Naivasha
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, Pembroke, Barnes, FANY
General Information:
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects for birth
St. Peter's, Nyeri cemetery - Eleanor Mary Ray, 23 April 1967
Nakuru North cemetery - Eric Ray, only son of Mervyn and Norah Ray, grandson of Ernest and Mary Fey, died on Mount Kenya on 22/2/1945 aged 24 years - they shall not grow old as we that are left grow old, we shall remember them
Gazette 5 Jun 1945 probate
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 547). Pembroke No. 42, 1929, Naivasha. No birthdate in KR records.
FANY - Mention in Despatches - 21 Mar 1942 - Lt. E.M. Ray
Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate, Norfolk and Norwich Aero Club 30 Aug 1937 Gipsy Moth (he was still a schoolboy)