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Name: GREATHEAD, Kenneth Horatio 'Ken'
Nee: son of Helen Douglas Huntly Greathead and James Henry Horatio Greathead of Cape Province
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1910 Germiston, South Africa
Death Date: 14 May 1998 Albany, W. Australia
First Date: 1930
Profession: Factory manager
Area: Hut - c/o Mrs Kelbe, Eldoret, Kipkabus, Nanyuki
Married: 18 Jan 1936 Molly Clare Kelbe b. 1915, d. 21.12.2012 Albany, Australia
Children: Joan Eileen (Erith) (1939), James John Edward (1941), Kenneth Dudley (1942)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, Ken Greathead, Foster
General Information:
Ken Greathead - Ken trained in South Africa as a Factory Manager and stayed with the Creameries and then KCC until 1945, from when he farmed full time in the Burnt Forest district near Eldoret. At one stage he had also owned a farm in Nanyuki. He and my mother migrated to Australia in May 1963.
Foster - Ken Greathead - 1930 practised as a dentist in Naivasha area after his farming collapsed due to the depression.
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 226).