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W. Robert Foran

1881 – 1968

British Army officer, hunter and writer

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Lived 1881 – 1968 (aged 86–87). W. Robert Foran was a writer.

William Robert Foran (1881–1968) was a British Army officer, big game hunter and travel writer.

Biography Foran trained at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into British Army as it was enlarged during the Second Boer War in South Africa. He originally served with the 21st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, where he was promoted to lieutenant. While in South Africa, he transferred to a regular army regiment as second lieutenant in The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry) on 23 April 1902, and after the end of the war that year left Natal for British India in November 1902. He later achieved the rank of Major. He traveled from Johannesburg to Mombasa, Kenya in 1904, and then to the newly founded city of Nairobi to buy land for farming. While in Nairobi, Foran was recruited by the British East Africa Police, becoming one of its six original officers. Foran worked as a travel writer for the National Geographic Society and wrote Malayan Symphony: Being The Impressions Gathered During A Six months' Journey Through The Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatra, Java And Bali about his 1935 trip through Southeast Asia.

He lived out the last years of his life in Nanyuki, Kenya, and died in 1968.

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Born
1881
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Died
1968
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Education
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Also known as
William Robert Foran

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Who was W. Robert Foran?

British Army officer, hunter and writer (1881–1968)

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W. Robert Foran was born in 1881.

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W. Robert Foran died in 1968.

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W. Robert Foran was a writer.

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· Wikipedia: W. Robert Foran

· Wikidata: Q26997750

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