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Name: GRIMWOOD, George Richard
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1898 Bushey
Death Date: 23 May 1958 Gilgil
First Date: 1926
Last Date: 1958
Profession: Farmer
Area: 1930 Manera Farm, Naivasha, Gilgil
Married: In Gilgil 31 Dec 1932 Olive Irene Alice Unite b. 2 May 1890 Paddington, London, d. 3 Oct 1971 Gunnislake, Cornwall
Children: John Jocelyn (25 Nov 1942 Nakuru)
Book Reference: Golf, Red 31, Hut, Legion, Pembroke, EA & Rhodesia, Njoro
War Service: 17th Lancers, South Wales Borderers, and the Police, 2nd Lieutenant, Captain & Adjutant 1917-19 and 1939-43
General Information:
Golf - Played for Gilgil against Royal Nairobi GC in 1935. Captain of Gilgil Golf Club in 1933. Played in the EA Amateur Golf Championship in 1931. Winner of the Rift Valley Championship in 1935 Winner of the Ronald Marshall Golf Competition at Njoro in 1933
Pembroke - Official at Pembroke House Sports 1938
EA & Rhodesia - 3/7/58 - Mr George Richard Grimwood, who has died in Kenya at the age of 60, first reached the Colony in 1926 and farmed for many years near Gilgil. He was well known as a golfer.
Njoro - The Gooding Cup 1938 - H.W. Isaac & G.R. Grimwood; The Ronald Marshall Cup 1933
Gazette 9 Sep 1958 probate
In WW2 he supervised Italian PoW camps at Gilgil and Nanyuki 1941-1944