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Name: BISHOP, Peter
Nee: son of Joyce Mabel, Mrs Angus Macdonald
Birth Date: 3 Jan 1921 Hampstead
Death Date: 12 Jan 1985 Guildford
Profession: Farmer
Area: 'Dornie', Nakuru
Married: In Nakuru 3.4.1947 Mary Ellen Gurney b. 15.9.1914 Hampton, d. 13.10.2009 Guildford; teacher at Nakuru School and then Lugard School, Nakuru
Children: Nigel Christopher Peter (27.3.1948 Nakuru); Julian John Hugh (18.10.1955 Nakuru)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2
War Service: Kenya Regt., 1st E. Af. Light Battery
General Information:
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 497)
Nigel Bishop (Peter Bishop's son): In 1926 Peter Bishop went to Kenya with his mother, Joyce Bishop (who married Captain Angus MacDonald following her divorce from Eric C. G. Bishop). He took over the running and management of Dornie Farm, Nakuru, after return from WW2. The farm was eventually sold in the early 1960s and he left Kenya to explore a new life in South Africa and Australia. In World War 2 he travelled with the Kenya Regt to Uganda and Sudan, supporting supply lines for the RAF. He then served in Ceylon and Burma with 1st East African Light Battery.