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Name: CUNNINGHAM, Kenneth Windsor MBE

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Nee: son of Dr. Robert Allan Cunningham. bro of Edward Allan Cunningham

Birth Date: 15 May 1911 Mussoorie, India

Death Date: 25 Sep 1996 Nanyuki

Last Date: 1996

Profession: Farmer. Hut - Tikikiller, Tobacco extract

Area: Rumuruti, 'Impala' Ranch, Nanyuki

Married: In Nairobi 5 Sep 1934 Anne Dorothea Patricia 'Nan' O'Meara b. 21.6.1909 Mpala Ranch, d. Kenya 1996 (dau of daughter of Capt. Bulkeley Ernest Adolphus O'Meara)

Children: Robert (1936 Kenya, died at birth); Helen Clare (Kaminski) (1937-15 Sep 2015 Waterford, Ireland); Katherine Anne (Wreford-Smith) (1939); Alice Maud (Colquhoun) (1944)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Mrs Mary Hoey, Hoey, Kenton, Red 31, Women 1/96, Jambo 65, Hut, Baptism, EA & Rhodesia, Old Africa, Davina O'Meara

School: Kenton College - left for George Watson's

General Information:

East Africa & Rhodesia - 12/1/56 - MBE - assistant district commandant, Kenya Police
Old Africa 4 Tim Hutchinson writes - In 1924 Capt. Finlay Ross Cramb opened Kenton School with 12 pupils amongst whom were Ken Cunningham, Rex Kirk, Hugh Lloyd, Eddy Sladen, Jim Nightingale and Pat Lawford. The school moved to Nairobi in 1934.
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 203). First class tennis player.

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