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William Edward (Bill) Moseley

Born 8 Nov 1902 in Maidstone, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Son of Robert James Moseley and Harriet (Haywood) Moseley

Brother of Robert George Handel Moseley, Harold Rubenstein Moseley, Doris Haywood Moseley, Frederick John Moseley, Leonard James Moseley, Freda Haywood Moseley and Brenda Haywood Moseley

Husband of Edith Charlotte (Long) Moseley — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Husband of [private wife (1900s - 2000s)]

Descendants

Father of David Moseley, David John Reading Moseley and [private daughter (1930s - unknown)]

Died 10 May 2002 at age 99 in Boonah, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Bill was the 6th child and youngest son of Robert and Harriet Moseley. After attending East Borough Elementary School, Bill won a scholarship to Maidstone Grammar School. At 16 he joined the family signwriting business taking night classes at Maidstone School of Art (Medway College of Art). He acquired City and Guilds qualifications in several skills including painting, decorating, sign writing, gilding and bronzing. Sometime in the early 1920s, Bill had the honour of being accepted as an Associate of the Incorporated Institute of British Decorators (IIBD). One of his contracts was the famous Golden Boot on Gabriels Hill, Maidstone and he was commissioned to do work for Foster Clarkes, Coleman & Epps and Fremlins Brewery. In 1926 hew won the Pinchin-Johnson Travelling Scholarship, travelling all over Britain and Belgium studying decoration and reporting back to the IIBD. He married Edith Long in 1925 and in 1931 became a fellow of the Royal College of Teachers enabling him to teach classes in art institutions at Maidstone, Ashford and Tunbridge Wells. He volunteered for service in WWII and was posted to the Royal Artillery at Bodmin, Cornwall. The following year he embarked to East Africa where he served to the end of the war, spending his spare time learning KiSwahili. At the end of the war, his talents were no longer affordable and materials were unavailable to continue his business, so he and Edith returned to Kenya where he was employed by the Colonial Service. His roles included community and water development, and education and with the Mau Mau uprising he was posted as Livestock officer to Fort Hall, Mukuraweini and Kitui, the latter in charge of Youth camps for boys – victims and orphans of Mau Mau. He also assisted in managing the Naro Moru Pura Milk Factory for the Caine family. Finally in 1966, under the British Repatriation Scheme, Bill and Edith returned to retirement in the bungalow “Bletchingly” in Weavering, Maidstone until they emigrated to Australia in 1988 to join their daughter, at Aratula in Queensland. His memorial stands in Kalbar Cemetery.