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Name: HARVERSON, Walter Douglas OBE

Birth Date: 13 Aug 1903 Wellington, N. Zealand

Death Date: 17 Aug 1992 Ottery St Mary, Devon

First Date: 1931

Last Date: 1959

Profession: Mining Engineeer, Mining & Geological Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1936. Originally Asst. Geologist 1934. Commissioner (Mines & Geology) in 1953

Area: Nairobi

Married: Helen Hilary Robinson b. 13 Jan 1912 Toronto, d. 29 Jan 1991 Ottery St Mary

Children: Philippa Audrey (1940); Celia Margaret (1943)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Staff 53, Legion, Colonial

War Service: Major, Corps of Engineers & Kenya Regt. 1937-43

School: Wellington Coll. NZ, Bedford Modern and Royal School of Mines (Imperial Coll.); ARSM, BSc, MIMM

General Information:

Colonial - Govt. Mining Engnr. 1936; Asst. Commissioner of Mines 1946; Commissioner of Mines and Geology 1949; Commissioner Mines Tanganyika 1959-62
Barnes Langata cem Nbi -Last Name: HARVERSON Given Name: Laura Augusta Birth: 1887 Death: 17 Jul 1962 , Place of Death: Nairobi AGED: YR: 75
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 57).
Left Kenya for good June 1959.

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