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Name: BERE, Rennie Montague CMG

Nee: related to Acland Bt.

Birth Date: 28 Nov 1907 Bere Regis, Dorset

Death Date: 23 Mar 1991 Plymouth

First Date: 1930

Profession: DC Uganda, Chief Warden Uganda National Parks

Area: Juba, Uganda

Married: 1936 Anne Maree Barker b. 19 May 1909, d. 2002 Stratton, Cornwall

Author: A Cuckoo's Parting Cry, 1900, et al.

Book Reference: Kinloch, Who's Who, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia, Uganda Staff, Chandler

School: Marlborough & Selwyn College Cambridge - studied mediceine

General Information:

An ex PC, a tall craggy faced man who had served in the strictly feudal atmosphere of Uganda's old Administrative Service for many years. Had very definite opinions on wildlife conservation. Opinions often diametrically opposed to Kinloch's.
Who's Who - Dir. and Chief Warden Uganda National Parks; until March 1955 Provincial Commissioner NE Province Uganda; Form Pres. Uganda Mountain Club; Vice. Pres. Uganda Kobs.
Colonial - Cadet, Uganda 1930; Asst. District Officer 1932; District Officer 1942; Asst. Res. and Prot. Agent Kampala; Commandant, Polish refugee Settlement at Koja 1943 and Masindi 1944; Provincial commissioner 1952.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 3/1/57 - CMG
Uganda Staff 1938 - Assistant District Officer Kabale, originally Cadet 1930

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