Service Details
Name:
 WHALLEY
Given Name:
 RICHARD CYRIL RAE
Initials:
 R C R
Service No:
 60648
Rank:
 Major
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Regiment:
 Royal Engineers
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Date of Death:
 1944-06-11
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Age:
 48
Cause of Death:
 Died of lobar pneumonia, at Addis Ababa
Decorations:
 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Additional
Information:
Son of Frederick Herbert and Margaret Rae Whalley, of Roodepoort, Transvaal, South Africa. Wrote the book "Slaves and Ivory: letters from Capt. Richard C.R. Whalley, British Consul at Maji, S.W. Abyssinia 1930-1936"
Commemoration
Country:
 Ethiopia
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Cemetery:
 ADDIS ABABA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 4. B. 11.

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