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\"Edward<\/p>\n

Edward George Fenning
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Rank:<\/em>\u00a0Captain<\/p>\n

Service:<\/em>\u00a0East African Transport Corps<\/p>\n

Father:<\/em>\u00a0Mr George D Fanning<\/p>\n

Father’s Address:<\/em>\u00a03 St Matthew’s Road, St Leonards<\/p>\n

Other Info:<\/em> Mentioned in Despatches reads: ‘Captain E G Fenning, of the East African Transport Corps, who was mentioned in General Smut’s despatch a few days ago, was in the Borough Surveyor’s Office from 1898 to 1903. He then went to the Office of Sir Alexander Bennie in London and the joined the Uganda Government Survey. He was in command of a large body of Waganda porters, 10,000 strong, who formed the transport for the Belgian Column. At Tabora he had the happiness of being able to take charge of the missionaries who had been interned, and of forwarding them on the homeward way…<\/p>\n

More ancestral information about Edward can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Published:<\/em>\u00a0February 1917<\/p>\n

Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this\u00a0person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward George Fenning Rank:\u00a0Captain Service:\u00a0East African Transport Corps Father:\u00a0Mr George D Fanning Father’s Address:\u00a03 St Matthew’s Road, St Leonards Other Info: Mentioned in Despatches reads: ‘Captain E G Fenning, of the East African Transport Corps, who was mentioned in General Smut’s despatch a few days ago, was in the Borough Surveyor’s Office from 1898 to<\/p>\n

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