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Name: BYERS, Martin Poynting OBE

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Birth Date: 27 Mar 1915 Wilmslow, Cheshire

Death Date: 29 March 2012 Lingfield

First Date: 1934

Profession: Labour Officer in 1939, appointed 1935. Originally temporary 1934. In Kisumu in 1939.

Area: Kisumu

Married: In Nakuru 21 Aug 1940 Rosemary Frances Veasey b. 10 Apr 1916 Bucklow, Cheshire, d. 1997 Uckfield (dau of Robert Francis Veasey)

Children: Robin (1943); Catharine (1944)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Nondies, Staff 39, Colonial, obit in The Old St Beghian no 182

War Service: Military Service KAR 1939-43, Major

School: St Bees School

General Information:

Colonial - Uganda 1948; Asst. Labour Commissioner 1950; Deputy Labour Commissioner 1953; Commissioner 1958-66
OBE 1962
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 21). Member of Nondescripts RFC XV in 1937.

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