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Name: FENTON, Walter Raymond (Commander, RN, retd.)

Nee: son of Raymond Rooke Fenton

Birth Date: 3.11.1900 Motihari, Bengal, India

Death Date: 19.2.1985 Bournemouth

First Date: 1920

Profession: Farmer; Chief Officer, Prisons Dept., Kenya in 1939, appointed 1938. Superintendent of Prisons in 1953

Area: Kisumu, Kabete, 1930 Kitale, 1922 Thika

Married: 1940 Beatrice Florence Rawson b. 1.5.1908 (dau of Capt. H. E. S. Rawson of Nairobi)

Children: William James Rawson (27.4.1949); Rosemary Olga (1942)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Colonial, Red 22, Kiambu Scrapbook, Burke, SS

War Service: Midn. RN 1917 to Lieut. RN (retd) 1923; on war service 1939-45 Comdr. RN (Retd.)

School: Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth

General Information:

Ancestry Passenger list 1947 has him travelling with Isabel aged 39, housewife, and child Shiela [sic] aged 5
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Midn. W.R. Fenton, RN, c/o R.R. Fenton Esq., Belwa, Lymington, Hants - Farm 1384?
Red 25 has W.R. Fenton, 'Tally Ho', P.O. Kitale.
Hut - partner with Pile Cherangani, Elgon Lodge Estate
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List expunged
Ancestry Passenger list 1920 travelling with Raymond Fenton (his father)

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