View entry
Name: MASTERS, Alfred James [Messer]
Nee: name originally Messer
Birth Date: ?29 Mar 1898 Carshalton
First Date: 1929
Profession: Catering officer of the Railways. When he became head of the catering dept the name was altogether too evocative and he anglicised it
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: Verandah, Gazette
General Information:
Verandah - He started the Railway Players in 1932 with a production of Hamlet ....….
Gazette - 26/3/1929 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Catering Manager K&U Rly - A.J. Messer
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - Alfred James Master, Asst. Catering Manager, KUR, Hill Hotel, Nbi
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Voters List - Alfred James Randall Master
Founder and producer of the Railway Players, Nairobi's amateur theatre group.
If he was the Carshalton Messer, he gained Royal Aero Club certificate 25 Mar 1918