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Name: LITTLEHALES, John Crisp Gascoyne MC (Lieut.-Colonel)
Birth Date: 14 Nov 1909 Steyning
Death Date: 19 Jan 1960 Kiambu
First Date: 1933
Last Date: 1960
Profession: Farmer, Kitale
Area: Kiambu. Mitini Estate, Kitale
Married: 1. In Kitale 1931 Joyce Buchanan Hunter b. 21 Apr 1904 Bedford, d. 30 June 1981 2. In Chichester 1950 Angela P. Holland b. 1924 Woolwich
Children: Valerie Diana (16 Dec 1933 Kenya-Oct 1970 New Zealand); Timothy (23 Sep 1937 Meru-16 Mar 1960 Meru); Betty
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Bur, Barnes
War Service: KAR
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 20/7/50 - A passenger to Nairobi by flying-boat a few days ago was Lieut.-Colonel J.C.G. Littlehales, who, after eight years in Australia as stockman, boundary rider, and farmer, went to Kenya in 1933 and was running a 1,500 acre farm when war broke out. He was at once commissioned in the KAR, and a few months later taken prisoner by the Italians near Lake Rudolf in an action for which he was awarded the Military Cross.
While in command of a patrol of 40 askari he found himself opposed by an enemy force ten times as numerous and well provided with light machine gune. At the end of an engagement lasting 4 hours all but one of his men had been killed and he had been wounded six times. Taken to Asmara, he was in hospital when British forces arrived from the Sudan and released him. Later he commanded a Pioneer garrison group in the Middle East.
St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery John Crisp Gascoyne Littlehales / 1909 -1969 / in loving memory AND Timothy Gascoyne Littlehales 1938-16 Mar 1960
Hut has John C.C. Littlehales MC Abyssinian Campaign 1937 View Farm Kitale, married to 1. Joyce Hunter 2. Angela
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 344).
Gazette 28 Mar 1961 son Timothy's probate