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Name: ERSKINE, Esmé Nourse MC (Capt.)
Birth Date: 28 Sep 1884 Kokstad, S. Africa
Death Date: 6 July 1962 Pietermaritzburg
First Date: 1917
Profession: KAR
Area: Nairobi, 1922 5th KAR Archer's Post
Married: 1. In Kimberley 14 Apr 1909 Elizabeth Susan Matilda Reinders b. 1884, d. Jan 1973 Pietermaritzburg; 2. (common law) Muriele Gladys Smith b. 1905 Droitwich (later m. in Grahamstown 1952 George Maguire)
Children: 1. Sevilla (Devon, Transvaal, died young); Esmé Stephenson (1914 Devon, Transvaal-1982); Swanzie (9 June 1916 Devon, Transvaal-2000) 2. Lyndley Aleda (29 June 1931-1994); Gyneth Fiona (25 May 1933 Gore, Ethiopia-5 Sep 2014)
Book Reference: Moyse, KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22
War Service: Special List, KAR, from South African Horse
General Information:
Gazette - 8/9/1920 - Presentation of Orders and Decorations by the Governor - MC - Capt. E.N. Erskine
Sir Crispin Agnew (grandson): he was in the South African Horse in East Africa 1914 to 1917, when he joined KAR (3rd then 5th) until he retired in 1924. He was then in the Kenya political service, and acted as a game warden until he was seconded to the Jubaland Boundary Commission 1925 to 1928, when he became the British Consul at Gore, Western Abyssinia 1928 to 1936 – it closed because of Italian/Abyssinian War. He was awarded CMG in 1937 for work at Gore. Then in UK till WW2 when in Cairo and then India before coming back to farm in South Africa c. 1950.