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Name: HUCKS, Harry Philip
Birth Date: 6 Jan 1903 Marylebone
Death Date: 23 Jan 1970 Tsavo
First Date: 1925
Profession: Engineer and retired farmer - buried in Tsavo Park
Area: Uganda, Tsavo
Married: In Balderton, Notts, 12 Feb 1934 Mavis Boyd Quibell b. 23 Mar 1905 Balderton, d. 1991 Bathurst, NSW, Australia
Book Reference: Tsavo
General Information:
Tsavo - was a real character, one of the brand of old time Englishmen of the calibre that made Britain great. His experiences in the early days rivalled the most exciting of thrillers. He had been severely mauled by a leopard while hunting in Uganda, had been carried, semi-conscious and in dire agony, on an improvised stretcher by his faithful gunbearer and servants for several days before reaching the banks of the Nile. Here he was placed in a canoe, which promptly overturned in midstream, nearly drowning him in the process. Finally he was deposited on the opposite bank, more dead than alive, but managed somehow to drive himself to hospital in his car, which had been left at a trading post, and get himself to the car park before slumping unconscious over the controls .... months of recuperation ......... Owned a Bentley