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Name: COOPER, Edward Scale
Birth Date: 14 May 1910 Southsea
Death Date: 13 Nov 1988 Wallingford
First Date: 1936
Profession: Primary School Master in 1939, appointed 1936. Originally Temp. Educ. Officer 1936. Education Officer in 1953
Area: Nakuru, Mombasa
Married: 1. In Durban 17 Sep 1940 Ada Taylor Williams b. 1917 Transvaal, d. 17 Sep 1942 Durban (in childbirth); 2. Marjorie Olive b. 31 Dec 1909, d. 1994 Newbury, Berkshire
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, O&C
School: Exeter College Oxford 1929-32, BA (Oxon)
General Information:
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 478).
Death cert. of 1st wife gives cause as 'undefined: most probably due to fatal cardiac syncope due to abnormal hypersensitivity to chloroform. No one to blame - accidental'.