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Name: HALLOWES, Paul Collis 'Pop' (Major)
Nee: son of Richard Carmichael Hallowes
Birth Date: 24.2.1891 Arklow
Death Date: 11.4.1973 West Tamar, Tasmania
First Date: 1920
Profession: Farmer, then in business
Area: Miti Mkubwa, Hoey's Bridge
Married: In Mombasa Cathedral 16.4.1922 Marjorie Elizabeth Mary Collis b. 1893 Cork, d. Kitale 8 Mar 1957
Children: Penelope Mabel 'Penny' (Davies) (18 July 1929 Hoey's Bridge-1988); Sheila Marjorie (Leonard) (6.3.1926 Kampala- 24.6.1951 Kitale)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Web, Barnes
War Service: Royal Dublin Fusiliers
School: Monkton Combe and Trinity College, Dublin
General Information:
Web - Qualified as a doctor but never practised. Admitted to the Freedom of the City of Dublin by right of Patrimony 28/10/1912. 2/Lt. 3rd Dublin Fusiliers 26/3/1913; Lt. 10/10/1914; Captain 15/5/1915; Major 7/3/1916. He went to France with his regiment and was wounded in 1914; next year (when he was attached to the 1st Royal Irish Regt.) he was gassed on the Ypres Front; and on the Somme in 1916 he was shot through the lung. 15/7/1917 to Labour Corps; later att. Irish Command HQ. While in Ireland he was one of the party who arrested Sir Roger Casement when he returned from Germany with a U-boat load of weaponry for the Irish insurgents. He resigned from the Army 28/10/1922. In 1920 he went out to Kenya; at first farming at Hoey's Bridge, then from 1935 in business. From 1942-6 he was Imports Controller for Uganda; in 1955 he was a partner in a tile business and Insurance consultant. Res. P.O. Box 200, Kitale.
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Paul Collis Hallowes - born 24 Feb 1891, died 11 Apr 1973 at West Tamar, Tasmania
Red 25 - Honorary Permit Issuer
Barnes - Kitale Cemetery - Marjorie Elizabeth Mary Collis - born 21 Dec 1893, died 8 Mar 1957
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Major Paul Collis Hallowes, Farmer PO Hoey's Bridge
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List expunged
Gazette 14 Jan 1958 wife's probate