Sir Gerald Reece, KCMG, CBE

Order of the British Empire

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, DL

Deputy Lieutenant

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(10 January 1897 - October 14, 1985) was a British writer and colonial administrator. He served as Governor of the British Somaliland

British Somaliland

British Somaliland was a British protectorate in the northern part of present-day Somalia. For much of its existence, British Somaliland was bordered by French Somaliland, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland. From 1940 to 1941, it was occupied by the Italians and was part of Italian East Africa...

 Protectorate from 1948 until February 1954.

He was affiliated with the Royal African Society and authored
The Horn of Africa for the Royal Institute of International Affairs in October 1954 (Vol. 30, #4, pp. 440-449
[doi:10.2307/2608724]).

Family

His wife was Lady Alys Reece, MBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

(born March 13, 1912 - died January 18, 1995). It is not clear if they had any children.

External links

• http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101064156/
• http://www.ndhm.org.uk/page_58a.htm
• http://www.vso.org.uk/lfd/pdfs/dd_colonialism.pdf