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Name: HALDANE, James Oswald

Nee: son of Robert Camperdown Haldane

Birth Date: 27.5.1879 Hampstead, London

Death Date: 9.8.1916 Ypres, died of wounds

First Date: 1904

Profession: Asst. Collector, Uganda Protectorate, March 1904

Area: Uganda, EAHB 1906 Fort Portal

Book Reference: EAHB 1905, Drumkey, EAHB 1906, North, EAHB 1907

General Information:

North - Schoolmaster from Ollaberry, Shetland Islands; aged 24 appt. Asst Collector UP 30-3-1904; arr. Mombasa 2-6-1904; Asst. Collector, Entebbe Oct 1904; appt. Acting Collector Toro District 6-12-1904; to be asst. Collector Masindi 21-2-1905; to be Acting Collector Toro 6-7-1905
Cambridge Univ. Alumni pens. at JESUS, Oct. 1898. [2nd] s. of Robert Camperdown, Esq., of Loch End, Shetland. J.P.]. B. May 29, 1879, at Hampstead. School, Loretto (Mr H. Almond). Matric. Michs. 1898; Scholar; B.A. 1902. Served in the South African War, 1900-1, with the University Contingent, Suffolk Regt. Entered the Uganda Civil Service, 1904. District Commissioner of Toro, 1912-16, when he resigned owing to the war. Served in the Great War (2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade, B.E.F., France, 1916); killed in action, Aug. 18, 1916, while engaged in an act of chivalrous care for one of his men. Brother of Maldwyn M. (1896). (Loretto Sch. Reg.; Burke, L.G., 1939; Univ. War List, The Times, Aug. 25, 1916.)
 

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