Eleventh Generation
697. Edwin Alan STOODLEY was born on 26 September 1890 at 2 Carlton Villas, Popes Grove in Twickenham, Middlesex. He was baptized on 12 October 1890 at Holy Trinity in Twickenham, Middlesex. He was buried in March 1944 in Nairobi War Cemetry, Kenya. Edwin died on 23 March 1944 at the age of 53 in Kenya. Lieutenant Colonel
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23rd March 1944. Age 53. Edwin Alan Stoodley, son of Henry (?) Charles and Patricia Stoodley, married Eileen O'Malley in 1924 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Edwin Alan Stoodley was an Auditor for the Colonial Office and worked in West Africa, the Bahamas and in Nairobi, Kenya, where he died in 1944. The following is from the CWWGC Debt of Honour Register:
Commemorative Information Cemetery: NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY, Kenya
Grave Reference/Panel 2. D. 1.
Location:
The War Cemetery is on the south-western outskirts of Nairobi, about 10 kilometres west of the city centre on Ngong Road, which is the main road to the Government Forest Reserve. The cemetery is adjacent to Nairobi race course and is included within the Ngong Forest Reserve. It is reached by way of a long driveway off Ngong Road, the turning being indicated by a CWGC direction sign. Within the cemetery is the East Africa Memorial (subject to separete register), which commemorates men of the land forces who lost their lives in the advance from the south into Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia and during the occupation of those territories, and who have no known grave. Along with them are honoured those who died during the operations in Madagascar in 1942 and who have no known grave. Besides those who died in these campaigns, many men who were lost in the sinking of the troopship 'Khedive Ismail' en route to Ceylon on 12 February 1944 are commemorated here; they include a great part of the 301st Field Regiment, East African Artillery. Also in the cemetery is The Nairobi Memorial.
Historical Information:
Nairobi is the capital of Kenya, and during the 1939-45 war was the headquarters of the East African Force and the base for the conquest of Jubaland and Italian Somaliland, the liberation of British Somaliland and the sweep north-westwards to open Addis Ababa for the return of the Emperor. It was also a hospital centre; No.87 British General Hospital arrived in June 1943 and was still there in December 1945, while No.150 British General Hospital was there for a period in 1943. The war cemetery was opened in 1941 by the military authorities. Besides the original burials, numerous graves were transferred to this cemetery from African civil cemeteries and temporary army burial grounds at Garissa, Gelib, Kinangop, Marsabit, Mega and other inaccessible places, so that it is now the largest war cemetery in East Africa. There are 1,952 burials of the 1939-1945 war comemorated here including 11 whom are unidentifed. There are also 81 non world war burials and 1 French burial.
Edwin Alan STOODLEY and Eileen Marjorie O'MALLEY were married in 1924. Eileen Marjorie O'MALLEY was born on 3 June 1902. She died in January 1993 at the age of 90 in Cheltenham, Avon. Edwin Alan STOODLEY and Eileen Marjorie O'MALLEY had the following children: |