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Research in Other Countries => Other Countries => Topic started by: harr2jas on Saturday 12 May 18 05:57 BST (UK)
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Hello,
I am seeking details about the death and marriage of Benjamin Baskerville Miller (born 1910 Kidderminster England). He served in Kenya during WW2 and returned to marry/live with a local woman of which I have no further details. I located a notice in a Nairobi Government Gazette declaring him an Inspector of Works for the Dept of Agriculture (D.A.R.A.) 18/03/49.
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Presume you have his date of birth,
7 July 1910 Worcester.
1939 Single Traveler in Joinery,appears to be in a boarding house.
1949 29 March,Listed on the Kenilworth Castle as Civil Servant, to Mombassa.
Nothing found in Kenya though.
He does not appear to have died in UK.
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The East African Standard was the settlers' newspaper of choice. Some copies are in the British Library but they're not online and not indexed, so probably worse than a needle in a haystack at present.
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He was a Building Supervisor in Mombasa in September 1956 per this edition of the Official Gazette (page 857): https://goo.gl/NZGypK