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Name: BATTEN, Maurice Jack
Birth Date: 3 Oct 1905 Frome
Death Date: 4 Oct 1980 Johannesburg
First Date: 1927
Profession: Reader, Printing & Stationery Dept., in 1939, appointed 1927
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi 1 Jan 1933 Gertrude Bridges b. 27 July 1901 London, d. 1980 S. Africa
Children: Jean (1935); Evelyn Ann (13 Jan 1940 Warminster-1945); another dau and a son
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Red 31
General Information:
Gazette - 31/1/1928 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Proof Reader, Govt. Press - M.J. Batten
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 11).