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Name: DOUGLAS, John Shepstone

Nee: son of Hector Douglas

Birth Date: 20 Sep 1906 Barkly East, Cape Colony, S Africa

Death Date: 12 Sep 1943 Nairobi

First Date: 1922

Last Date: 1943

Profession: Mechanic

Area: Kasarini Estate, Kiambu; Box 98, Nairobi

Married: Eileen Herne b. 15.7.1909 Nairobi, d. 21 Oct 1981 Johannesburg (dau of David Edward Herne)

Children: Yvonne Joan (7 Nov 1930 Nairobi-1996); Phyllis (Tate) (9 Aug 1929 Nairobi-25 Apr 1915 Southend on Sea)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Ron Stevens, Red 22, Old Africa, Leader14, Chandler, Red 25, Hut, Barnes

General Information:

Source - Interview with Ron Stevens - 19-9-96
Red 22 - John Douglas, Box 98, Nairobi
Old Africa 4 - coffee planter named John Douglas who had lost his left arm in a shooting accident. He never let the disability bother him. …..(Story of how Douglas and Syd Downey rode a Harley Davidson motor cycle and sidecar from Nairobi to Mombasa in 1926)
Leader14 - John Douglas - Eldoret ?
Chandler - John Douglas, the one-armed manager of a sisal estate near Lake Naivasha, frequently hunted buffalo at a place called Hell's Gate with a .500 double rifle. When Eddie Grafton, a hunter for the Safariland Company, was killed by a buffalo in the 1920s, Douglas followed up the wounded beast and put it down.
Red 25 has John Douglas, c/o R.B. Duncan, Nairobi.
Ron Stevens - John Douglas delivered milk in Nairobi, starting at 4.00 am. - one arm.
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - Nairobi South - John Douglas, Grocer's Assistant, Kilimani, Box 924, Nbi
Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - John Shepstone Douglas, British, age 36, died 12/9/43
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - John S. Douglas, Wireless Dealer, Cambrian Buildings, Nbi and Eileen Douglas, Married woman, Cambrian Buildings
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Nyanza Voters List mechanic Kakamega

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