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Name: BOCKETT-PUGH, Harry Arthur Douglas (Lieut.)

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Birth Date: 4 Mar 1882 Bradford on Avon, Wilts.

Death Date: 13 Nov 1948 Salisbury, Wilts.

First Date: 1910 ?

Profession: Military

Area: Marsabit, Loiengalani

Married: 1. In Paddington 1914 Ann Dorothea Tanner bapt. 27 Aug 1871 Yatesbury, Wiltshire, d, 26 Jan 1935 Laverstock, Wiltshire (prev. m. Robert Tuthill Whaites); 2. In Salisbury 1943 Elsie Maud Lagdon b. 24 Apr 1915 Edmonton, Msex., d. Sep 2002 Salisbury

Book Reference: Women 1/95, Moyse, Gazette, Web

War Service: Gloucestershire Regt., attached 6 KAR 1909-1914

General Information:

Moyse - In charge of the post at Loiyengalani in 1911 - tried to grow vegetables unsuccessfully. He had had a camp on Mt. Kulal, and had already sought permission to move his station to this healthier site. Loiyangolani was not even well placed to protect the Samburu.
Gazette 15/6/1910 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Lieutenant - 25/5/1910
Women - John Hope gave him orders to proceed from Marsabit to Loiengalani and establish a secure base and patrol the surrounding area with vigour and gain the upper hand over all undesirable intruders.
Web - Glosters - "We also have to report the death of Major H.A.D. Bockett-Pugh who obtained a Regular commission in the Regiment from the 3rd Militia Battalion in May 1902. For a number of years he served with the King's African Rifles and took part in the Somaliland Operations of 1908-10 (Medal). During the First World War, being unfit for active service, he was Adjutant of the 3rd Batt. for some years and then commandant of a Convalescent Depot. He retired from the Regt. in 1919, but was subsequently employed with the R.A.P.C. and was a Cashier at Southern Command up to the end of the recent war."
1939 England and Wales Register living alone in Salisbury

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