Am Currently researching the Roll of Honour (some 59 names in total)for my old school - Prince of Wales School, Nairobi previously known as Nairobi School (& now reverted back to that name I have a list of some names of which had obvious RAF connections, these have been posted on RAF Commands Forum and to date have had a Superb response on that Forum - Thanks Guys My prime sources for my research so far has been the CD list of the school magazine ' The Impala' (from Old Cambrian Society - Prince of Wales School/Nairobi School) and the CWGC but am looking for any extra info that is available Another source is Malcolm Page's - KAR, a History of the Kings African Rifles, unfortunately a few years back I rashly lent out my copy of 'Charging Buffalo - a History of the Kenya Regiment' with the usual result!!! Anyway below are listed the ARMY names I have and would appreciate any information Thanks in Advance PZULBA - Out of Africa (Retired) AGGETT Hudson Boyce Major 322300 12/02/44 General List EA Memorial also 404 Kenya Regt lost on ss Khedive Ismail COWAN JA Trooper 2839 22/08/41 Kenya Regt Asmara Wat Cemetery DANBY Alastair George Grogan 2/Lt 218832 28/08/1940 RASC(EAASC) Nanyuki Cemetery aalso 738 Kenya Regt De HAAFF NCA Serjeant 1086 29/04/1941 Kenya Regt Nairobi War Cemetery FITTALL LAW Serjeant B/407 12/02/1044 EAE&ME EA Memorial also 48 Kenya Regt lost on ss Khedive Ismail GENOWER John Albert Signalman 1444 15/07/43 EA Corps of Signals Mombasa (Mbaraki) Cemetery GRIFFIN Terence Oliver Serjeant 938 07/09/1944 Kenya Regt (11KAR) Imphal war Cemetery HIGGS Roy Botteville L/Cpl 689 14/05/1941 EA REcon Regt Nairobi Forest Rd Cemetery JARRETT Stanley Leonard WOII (CSM) 421 6/04/1941Kenya Regt (KAR) Adddis Ababa WAr Cemetery LUCKHAM Edward William Clayton MD Major 73 4/07/1943 Kenya Regt attd EA Int Corps EA Memorial per school magazine 'Lost at Sea' McCLELLAND William Robert David Bombardier 612 15/08/1940 Kenya Regt/ EA Artillery Hargeisa Memorial Somalia MILLAR John Capt 85663 18/02/45 Northants Regt Talukkyan Burma NEWMARK Brian Louis Serjeant 820 4/04/1942 Kenya Regt attd Somaliland Camel Corps Addis Ababa Cemetery PERCIVAL OB Serjeant 3103 12/02/1944 Lenya Regt attd EA Artillery EA Memorial lost on ss Khedive Ismail POPPLETON William MD Lt 348475 1/121944 Army General List - 26 KAR Imphal War Cemetery also 1812 Kenya Regt ROETS Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus Trooper 1001 30/07/1940 Kenya Regt attd EA Recon Regt Nairobi War Cemetery TURNER David Thomson LT 15171914/12/1941 31 Fld Regt RA Alamein Memorial WHITE GM Serjeant 3058 12/02/1944 Kenya Regt/EA Artillery EA Memorial lost on ss Khedive Ismail The above are ALL Prince of Wales School, with those below listed as being Nairobi School AYRE William Herbert Serjeant 841 16/08/1940 Kenya Regt attd EA Recon Regt Nairobi War Cemetery BRACEGIRDLE John WO! (Sub-Condr?) NB/6 EAAOC Nairobi War Cemetery DAVIS RW 2/Lt ?649? 17/011942 5 KAR/Kenya Regt Nairobi War Cemetery LANE John David Serjeant17/10/1939 Kenya Regt Nairobi *Forest Rd) Cemetery LEAKEY Nigel Gray VC Serjeant 145 19/05/1941 Kenya Regt attd 1/6 KAR EAST AFRICA MEMORIAL NELL Louis T Serjeant 3049 1/08/1943 Kenya Regt Thika War Cemetery STEWART Neil Lt 67574 11/02/1942 2 Argyll & Sutherland Singapore Memorial Also have one Civilian War dead MORTIMER Phillip Arthur Joseph student aged 18 lost on SS Ceramic 6-7/12/1942 AS stated would appreciate any info
Hi PZULBA, A daunting task ahead. Looking at the first one Aggett, there seems to be some Google info on his early life and his subsequent death however I am sure you would have this already. Interesting to see a photo of him here: Nairobi School Rugby Team - 1931 The Kenya Regiment Association ROH looks really good (Bottom of page) Kenya Regiment Association
Pzulba, Are you still around and active? I have been tasked with trying to sort out a Roll of Honour for Pembroke House School, which has two (possibly three) overlaps that I know of with the PoW/Nairobi School (interesting the name changes... I always thought it was the PoW and then became Nairobi School after Independence in 1963). I have also lumped in the Kenya regiment Roll of Honour as many of them will have come through one of the few government schools in Kenya at that time. Still working on what schools they could/would have been. The people I have are: J.C. Aronson -killed on 6th March 1944, aged 22 with the SAAF (40 Squadron) and whose memorial is in Malta (don't have much more info on him at this stage). He is not on your list, but is an ex-Pembrokian, but not necessarily from the PoW. R.W. Davis -with 5 KAR, killed on 17th Jan 1942. This is also tenuous at this stage, as the Old Pembrokian is simply R. Davis at this stage, as opposed to the PoWs Ralph William Davis. M.N. Matthias -killed on 2nd April 1945 in Austria. He was definitely an Old Pembrokian. The other anomaly we have is a teacher at Pembroke 'Dickie' Dyson (apparently Richard, which makes obvious sense, but not sure whether that came from an assumption based on him being called 'Dickie' or noT). He was apparently in the Battle of Britain where he died, but have drawn an absolute blank there. I found a couple of mistakes in your list, but you having researched this a while back, may well be ahead of all of this, and so won't go into details now. Tom
hello Tom Pzulba has not been om since April 2016 i shall send a private message to him for you regards Clive
