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Name: FORCE-JONES, Roland
Birth Date: 1.9.1874 King's Norton
Death Date: 4.11.1931 Lahore
Nationality: British
First Date: 1897
Last Date: 1899
Profession: CMS missionary. Tucker - travelled to Uganda with a party under the leadership of Hubbard. Down with blackwater fever in Oct. 1898
Area: Mengo, Nassa, Mityana
Married: In Karachi 27 Oct 1902 Amelia Nellie Caines b. 1873 Bristol, d. 16 Feb 1949 Hammersmith
Children: Mercia Maria (8 June 1904-1989); Roland John (1911-8 Apr 1943 Tiverton)
Book Reference: Tucker, North, BEA
General Information:
North - Formerly in wholesale clothing business; Lay missionary; age 23 dep. for EA 2/9/1897; arr. Uganda Dec 1897; Mengo; moved to Nassa Mission on Speke Gulf GEA April 1898; After three attacks of blackwater fever sent to Mityana 1899; dep. Mombasa for London on medical certificate 1/12/1899; transferred by CMS to India.