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Name: DAWSON, John Vavasour 'Jack' DSO (Major)

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Nee: 2nd son of William Christopher Dawson

Birth Date: 1890 Weston, Yorkshire, bapt 9 Apr

Death Date: 28 Feb 1935 Kisii

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1935

Profession: DC. Narok, Kisii, Hut has Maj J.I. Dawson 1922 ADC Nakuru. DC Narok 1933. DC at Kisii in about 1928. He had been in the 13th Hussars and lost a leg in the war

Area: Nakuru, 1925 Naivasha, 1930 Narok

Married: In Marnhull, Dorset 2 July 1915 Charlotte Gerda Romilly b. 1889 Calcutta, d. 1970

Children: Herbrand Vavasour (1918); Peter Romilly (1930 Winchester)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Dominion, Burke, Rift Valley, Fox Davies, Gazette, Dunkley, Nellie, Gethin

War Service: Capt. and Brevet Maj. 13th Hus., served in WW1 1914-17 in France and Mesopotamia

School: Glenalmond and RMC Sandhurst

General Information:

NOT in DSO ?
Burke - District Commissioner, Kenya 1919   [No mention of DSO in Burke?]
Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 21 Jun 1920
Gazette 24/12/1919 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. District Commissioner - 8/12/1919
Gazette - 20/7/1921 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - John Vavasour Dawson - Asst. Resident Commissioner - Nakuru
KAD 1922 - Administration Cadet, Nakuru.
Dunkley - Memoirs of K.L. Hunter - Kisii - " ..... I took over the boma from Jack Dawson who had died there from enteric. ..….. "
 

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