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Name: SMART, Arthur Thomas

Nee: bro of Benjamin and William Henry Smart

Birth Date: 1873 Dudley, Staffs

Death Date: 12 Nov 1944 Nyeri

Nationality: British

First Date: 1899

Profession: Winding engine driver; Land Grant 1903 - About 20 acres - Nairobi - May 25 - 99 years' leasehold. Further grant - cultivation, 39 acres near Nairobi - Oct. 26 Leasehold. Butcher, Nyeri 1938

Area: Nairobi, Nyeri

Married: In Dudley 1902 Lilian Bird b. 1876 Dudley, d. 14 Feb 1938 Nyeri

Children: Arthur Ewart (1903 Dudley-1955)

Book Reference: Land 1903, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, North, Drumkey, Descending, EAHB 1906, Medals, EAHB 1907, Barnes

War Service: WW1 with EAMR - B Sqdn. 8/8/14 - 28/9/14

General Information:

SE - A.J. Smart - Smart's Hotel - Sept 1907
North - Uganda Railway - From Dudley; UK appt. as Winding Engine Driver 27/9/1899; Winding Engine Drivers to be given 3 months' notice 20/9/1901; due to dep. Mombasa at end of contract 20/11/1901; had recently returned to EA 5/3/1903; Committee member of Colonists' Association, Nairobi Dec 1905
Descending - Photgraph of "Mr M. Gallagher, with the first three Incline Drivers Messrs Shutt, Smart snr., Smart jnr., lowering the first locomotive. Mr John Hudson who arrived in October 1897 should have been in the party.
North - Living in tent on shamba half a mile from Nairobi with Alderton 17/3/1903
Medals - East African Signal Company - Arthur J. Smart, EAMR, No. 157, Private 
Barnes - St. Peter's Nyeri Cemetery - Arthur Thomas Smart who passed away 'RIP'  12 Nov 1944
Red 31 has A.T. Smart, Nyeri Hut - Butcher
Mills Railway - Escarpment - Winding Engines - The winding engines worked well and their crews, Alderson [sic], Hosie, McLean, Shutt, Stuart, Smart, Spence and Thom "were all comfortably housed".
Gazette - 5/8/1925 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Arthur Thomas Smart, Butcher PO Nyeri
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List

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