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Name: THOMPSON, Robert Alfred 'Tommy'

Birth Date: 1882 Antigua, West Indies
Death Date: 1 Nov 1955 Nairobi
First Date: 1938
Profession: Farmer, Nyeri Station; civil servant 1927
Area: Nyeri
Married: In Johannesburg 8 Apr 1912 Mayzod Eleanor Lee b. 1881 Aston, Birmingham, d. 1964 Nairobi
Children: Francis Conyers (7 Jan 1913 Boksburg, S. Africa-1998 Nairobi); Arthur D'Arcy (1920)
Book Reference: Golf, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Medals, Barnes
War Service: East African units
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 1/12/55 - Mr R.A. Thompson, who has died in Nairobi at the age of 74, served in the German East Africa campaign of the 1914-18 war and then entered the Colonial Service in Tanganyika, retiring in 1933 as a provincial commissioner. He went to Nyeri to live, and was later elected president of the local club. As a young man he had served through the South African war and then in Rhodesia in the B.S.A. Police.
Medals - East African Political Department - R.A. Thompson, Cape Corps, Lieutenant ?
Nairobi City Park cemetery - Robert Alfred Thompson, died 1 Nov 1955 aged 74
Hut has R.A. Thompson 1937 Amboni Falls Nyeri
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List
President of Nyeri Golf Club in 1938/39.