Rev. Pleydell and his class, Maseno, Nyanza province, Kenya, 1918

Abstract

“Rev. Mr Pleydell’s class.” Group portrait of pupils and their teacher. The Rev. Albert Edward Pleydell was in charge of the CMS (Church Missionary Society) mission at Maseno and married to Annie Elizabeth. ❧ The image is from an album chronicling the war time experiences of Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) in German East Africa and Portuguese East Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. During this time he would meet Dr John W Arthur which in turn would lead to his missionary work at Chogoria in Kenya