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Name: GRIFFITHS, Gerald Selby Lewis (Capt.)

Birth Date: 8 June 1910 Paddington

Death Date: 1991 Haywards Heath

Profession: KAR

Married: In Banbury 1958 Dorothea Aplin b. 24 Dec 1909 Bloxham, d. 20 Feb 1984 Steeple Barton, Bicester

Book Reference: Ione, EA & Rhodesia

General Information:

1939 England and Wales Register living in Southend on Sea 'training for flying'.
EA & Rhodesia - 4/2/1954 - Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, the Durham Light Infantry, and a former company commander in the 5th Bn. KAR, has been placed under arrest.
Mau Mau - revelations of cruelty have been made such as occurred at the court-martial of Captain Griffiths, the settlers have been as perturbed as the outside world. 
Facebook 28 June 2016 The Chuka Massacre: 20 villages killed by KAR under Griffiths. Griffiths was put on trial, not for the Chuka event, but for murdering 2 men at a roadblock.Griffiths guilty of murder and sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment.
 

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