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Name: STITT, Allan Duncan DSO, MC (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 11 June 1894 Ashburton, New Zealand
Death Date: 1 Oct 1950 Nairobi
First Date: 1925
Last Date: 1950
Profession: New Zealander - partner with Lt.-Col George Griffiths in a 10000 acre farm at Turbo after WW1.
Area: Turbo, 1925 'Aotearoa', Eldoret, Kaptagat Arms Hotel, Kipkabus, 'Karamiat'
Married: In Shaftesbury 31 Aug 1920 Mary Harris b. 1 July 1896 Shaftesbury, d. 1 Aug 1958 Nairobi)
Children: Brian Alan (1921 Shaftesbury-11 Feb 1945 killed in action, Burma; Mary (manager for Ridley - Red Polls); son N.K.
Book Reference: KFA, Golf, Debrett, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, DSO, Barnes, mini-Sitrep XXXII
War Service: NZ Expeditionary Force in France
General Information:
President of Kakamega Golf Club in 1937/38. Captain of Kakamega GC in 1935. Club Champion at Kakamega Golf Club in 1937/38. President of Eldoret Golf Club in 1924-27. Winner of the Nyanza Open Golf Championship in 1937. Runner-up in the Goldfields Golf Championship in 1934.Great golfer. Club Champion at Nyanza Golf Club in 1940. Improved the layout of Kakamega Golf Course in 1934/35
Debrett - Lieut.-Col. New Zealand Forces; European War 1915-18 (despatches, MC, DSO)
East Africa & Rhodesia - 16/11/50 - Colonel Alan Duncan Stitt, DSO, MC, who has died in Kenya at the age of 56, went to the Colony to farm after the 1914-18 war, joined in the Kakamega gold rush in the early thirties, and continued to interest himself in mining. He was a director of a hotel company. Mrs Stitt, one son, and a daughter survive him.
Barnes - Nairobi City Park Cemetery - Alan Duncan Stitt, died 1 Oct 1950 aged 57 AND Mary Stitt, died 1 Aug 1958 aged 62, buried in the same plot
mini-Sitrep XXXII - at first meeting of Eldoret Elected Council on 8 April 1930 - Lt.Col. A.D. Stitt DSO, MC Partner with L.A. Johnson in first successful gold mining venture in Kakamega. Farmer
Gazette 9 Dec 1958 wife's probate says she d. 1 Aug 1958