Service Details
Name:
 CURRIE
Given Name:
 WILLIAM COLE
Initials:
 W C
Service No:
 5054
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 East African Veterinary Corps
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Date of Death:
 1915-07-25
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Date of Birth:
 1861-05-27
Age:
 54
Cause of Death:
 Died of malaria
Decorations:
 Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
 LG 16 April 1901 pg. 2611
Additional
Information:
Son of Henry Frederick and Nellie Johanna Currie, of Albany, Cape Province; husband of Charlotte M. Currie, of East Leigh, Nairobi, Kenya. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. Served in the Gcaleka War; in the Boer war as a Lieutenant in Nesbitt's Horse, he distinguished himself in the fighting in the Colesberg district in 1901 and was Mentioned in Despatches; was farming in British East Africa when WW1 broke out served in the Veterinary Corps near Nairobi (another source says he was an Intelligence officer)
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 NAIROBI SOUTH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. C. 12.

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