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Name: NEVILL, Walter Elphinstone
Nee: son of Henry Ralph Nevill, Archdeacon of Norfolk
Birth Date: 10.4.1878 Norwich
Death Date: 16.10.1963 Barton Turf, Norfolk
First Date: 1912
Profession: Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Uganda Railway during WW1. Organised manufacture of all sorts of equipment for the war effort
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Aylesbury 1918 Mrs Maria L. Eldridge née Lyons b. 15.11.1874 Jefferson, Texas, d. 1956 Bronx, USA (prev. m. 1892 Herbert R. Eldridge)
Book Reference: Permanent Way, Leader14, Gazette
General Information:
Leader14 - Locomotive Superintendent - Nairobi
Gazette 1/8/1912 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Loco Superintendent - 15/7/1912
Blue Book 1913-14 Loco Superintendent, 1st appt 22 June 1912
1939 England and Wales Register living in Tasburgh Hall, Depwade, Norfolk, with wife and mother