Bruce Kinloch

Bruce Kinloch
Bruce Kinloch, napping on a train
Born	27 August 1919 India
Died	21 June 2011 (aged 91) Herefordshire, England
Allegiance	British
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1939–1947
Rank	Major
Unit	Gurkha Rifles
Battles/wars	Battle of Sittang River Bridge
Awards	Military Cross
Other work	Game warden and author

Bruce Kinloch MC (27 August 1919 – 21 June 2011) was born at Saharanpur in India and educated at Berkhamsted School in England. He was commissioned into the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles after leaving Sandhurst in 1939, fought with them in Burma and on the Northwest Frontier, and won the Military Cross for his part in Battle of Sittang River Bridge in 1942. At the age of twenty-five, he commanded a battalion. In 1947, he joined the Colonial Administrative Service. He was Chief Game Warden in Uganda for ten years; in 1960 he became Chief Game Warden of Tanganyika, a post he held until 1964. Later, he became the Chief Game Warden in Malawi.

Kinloch wrote several non fiction books. Among these are Sauce for the Mongoose 1965 and The Shamba Raiders 1972, which was reprinted in 1988 and again in 2004.

Kinloch also founded the College of African Wildlife Management on the slopes of Kilimanjaro which has trained thousands of game wardens.

Major Kinloch lived with his wife Elizabeth at Scotch Firs in Fownhope, Herefordshire.

Bibliography

• Sauce for the Mongoose (1964)
• Three Great Animal Stories (1966)
• Shamba Raiders: Memories of a Game Warden. (1972)

External references

• Obituary of Major Bruce Kinloch, The Daily Telegraph, 4 September, 2011