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Name: BRAITHWAITE, Arthur (Major)

Birth Date: 1878 ?Armley, Yorks.

Death Date: ?1968 Surrey

First Date: 1914

Profession: Company director

Area: Nairobi

Married: ?In Pimlico 7 Dec 1911 Winifred Ethel Hillier

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, EAMR, Curtis, Red 22, Gazette, Medals, SS, Red 19

War Service: EAMR has Capt. A. Braithwaite 5/8/14 - 18/8/14

General Information:

Curtis - p. 115 - 'Diary of a Trip from Londiani to the Uasin Gishu with a 'Universal' Tractor' by Arthur Braithwaite. [the trip took place in March 1914]
Curtis - p. 133 - 'Ten Years Later' - Captain and Mrs Braithwaite (it was he who drove a 'Universal' tractor from Londiani to Eldoret in 1914) paid a reconnaisance visit to BEA in 1912. Mrs Braithwaite's diary shows how things had by then improved.
Gazette - 26/8/1914 - Appt. - Captain A. Braithwaite, Quartermaster, Volunteer Forces, East Africa Mounted Rifles, to be Captain, to date August 5th 1914
Gazette - 23/9/1914 - Appt. - To be Lieutenant, East Africa Mounted Rifles - Captain A. Braithwaite, Pay and Quartermaster, to be Ordnance Officer
Gazette - 11/8/1915 - Transfer - Captain Arthur Braithwaite, Protectorate Ordnance Dept., to the EA Supply Corps, to date 26th March 1915
Medals - East African Ordnance Department - Captain
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major A. Braithwaite, Finsbury Pavement House, London EC2 - Farm 944 - Representative, A.G. Nourse Esq., P.O. Box 148, Nairobi
Gazette 24/1/1917 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Ludwig Alfred Eckstein, late of Nairobi, who died near Kilwa, GEA on 23/11/1916. Applied for by Captain Arthur Braithwaite (one of the executors) of Nairobi.
Red Book 1919 - A. Braithwaite - Muthaiga, Nairobi
Hut has A. Braithwaite - Soysambu, Elmenteita

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