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Name: SEARLE, Charles Frederick MC (Col.) (Dr.)
Nee: son of Charles Edward Searle DD and Mary Searle of Cambridge
Birth Date: 1883 Cambridge
Death Date: 23 June 1947 Nakuru
First Date: 1933
Last Date: 1947
Profession: District Surgeon, Medical Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1937.
Area: Rumuruti, Nanyuki
Married: In London 1911 Anne Alban b. 1882 Llanilar, Cardiganshire, d. 1963 Wandsworth
Children: Charles Walter Alban (1911 Cambridge-2001); Lancelot Alban (25 Feb 1915 Cambridge-20 Apr1954 Malaysia); Edward Alban (1916 Cambridge-2008); John Alban (1920 Cambridge-1941 killed on active service)
Book Reference: Staff 39, Foster, Red 31, Hut, CWGC, Stand-to, Gazette
School: MRCS, LRCP (Lond), MB, MD BCH (Cantab), DPH
General Information:
CWGC - Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps who died on Monday, 23rd June 1947. Age 64. Nakuru Cemetery Grave Ref: Plot H Grave 2
Stand-to - "The nearest doctor was some 80 miles away and when I presented myself to him, I discovered that he was the notorious Doctor Searl [sic] of the 'Helen of Troy' scandal. Some years earlier, while in general practice in England, he had conducted a torrid and much publicised affair with a lady patient, whom the press had dubbed Helen of Troy. As a result he was struck off the medical register and had emigrated to Kenya where morals were much more practical. At the time, the Colony was very short of qualified medical personnel so, despite his past misbehaviour, he was allowed to practise.
Foster - practised in Nanyuki in 1933.
Red 31 - C.E.F. Searle, Box 11, Eldoret
Frederick Charles Searle in Gazette 2 Feb 1937 Med practitioners in Kenya
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List with Gwendoline Elsie