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Name: BETTISON, Wilfred Grey
Nee: son of Wilfred Bettison
Birth Date: 4 Jan 1915 Mombasa
Death Date: 13 May 1964 Uvinza, Tanganyika
First Date: 1922
Profession: Tea planter
Area: Mombasa
Married: In Tanganyika 1 Oct 1941 Stella Ashton Vickers, bapt. 24 May 1908 Pretoria, d. 5 Nov 1986 Port Shepstone, S. Africa; 2. In Tanganyika 1 Oct 1949 Elizabeth Alice Nelson b. 12 July 1916, d. 9 Mar 2004 Lostwithiel, Cornwall
Children: 2. Rolfe Frankland (12 July 1950); Colin Grey (18 Sep 1951); Richard Paul (14 Feb 1954)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Wed, Red 22
General Information:
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 783).
KAD 1922 - W. Bettison, Committee Member, Mombasa Seamen's Institute.
Red 31 has W. Bettison, KFA, Nakuru, Hut the same.
Wed. Nyeri - described as Sergeant Major, HM Forces
Gazette 10 Nov 1964 probate
Ancestry passenger list 1958 has him with wife Elizabeth Alice b. 12 July 1916