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Name: GILBERT, Alexander Grant
Birth Date: 21 July 1892 Lossiemouth
Death Date: 16 May 1944 Nairobi
First Date: 1922
Profession: Instructor, African Educ. Dept in 1939, appointed 1936. Originally Temp. Lead. Artisan 1932
Area: Kabete, 1930 Kikuyu
Married: Marion Patrick b. 1892, d. 1 Feb 1963 Ferring, Sussex
Children: Ian Grant (1925)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Red 31, Hut, CWGC
War Service: KAR
General Information:
CWGC has Capt. Alexander Grant Gilbert DCM, 325136, RASC. 16th May 1944. Age 51. Son of William and Elspeth Gilbert; husband of Marion Patrick Gilbert, of Portobello, Midlothian. Also served in the 1914-18 War - Nairobi War Cemetery, Plot 2 D 3
Hut has 1930 CMS Kikuyu
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Alexander Grant Gilbert, Technical Instructor, Jeanes School, Kabete
Gazette 11 Sep 1945 probate - says date of death was 14 May
Nat Probate Calendar for wife's death
?Church of Scotland missionary, Kikuyu (Red 22)