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  Robert Louis Siedle
Robert Louis Siedle was born on July 3, 1925, in Port Chester, New York, to Kathryn Hamilton, age 29, and Edward Vincent Siedle, age 37. He had two sisters Mary Kate and Carol and in Rye his family lived at 43 Highland Road.
Robert was a Rye High School Graduate, Class of 1943.
He served as an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Taking Specialized Training
Pvt. Robert L. Siedle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Siedle, Highland Road, was home on a two-day leave from Cornell University where he is taking the Army specialized training program.
Friday, March 10, 1944 THE RYE CHRONICLE PAGE NINE
He was a graduate of Rye High School and Syracuse University and received his BS degree from Texas University.
 Robert L. Siedle Getting Doctorate Univ. of Florida
Robert L. Siedle, former Rye
resident, has passed his examinations for a doctorate in sociology at
the University of Florida and will
visit his sister, Mary Kate Siedle,
50 West St., Harrison, about June
6 before leaving for Makerere
University College in Kampala,
Uganda, East Africa, to accept a
position in case work and consultant to various social and welfare
agencies.
Robert went to Uganda as an unfortunate fate awaited.
"The fate of a former Rye man and his companion’ an American Journalist both missing in Uganda since July of last year appeared further determined with the finding Wednesday of the pair's burned-out automobile lying half-way down a cliff In the remote- Ruwenzori foothills the ‘Mountains of the Moon".
Robert Siedle 46 a lecturer with the 'Makerere University in Kampala Uganda and Nichols Stroh 33 a freelancer covering Africa for several news organizations, had been presumed dead after they failed to return from a trip from Kampala to Mbarara Uganda -where they planned to investigate reports of intertribal warfare at the barracks in Mbarara.
An anonymous phone tip to the American Embassy related seeing the pair under arrest in the barracks on July 8 a day after they had set out, An army deserter in Tanzania last week described their murder by Uganda soldiers.
Members of a special court of inquiry ' investigating the case found the car Wednesday after school boys of a local mountaineering club discovered it on the cliff. Chassis numbers and other details identified it as the missing car.
THE EXILED soldier Lt Silver Tiblhika last week told a British Journalist that the Ugandan soldiers had bragged of stabbing Stroh and Siedle to death because Stroh was "Proud"."
Robert Louis Siedle died on July 10, 1971, in Uganda when he was 46 years old.
At the time of his death, he was divorced with two sons, Robert living in London England and Edward living in East Long Meadow. Mass.
Other members of the family included his mother 'Mrs. Kathryn Siedle of Harrison, two sisters Miss Kate Siedle also of Harrison and Mrs. Carol Fishkin of Massachusetts and a stepmother Mrs. Edward Siedle and stepsister Mrs. William Renkin both of Rye
1976 Report of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad
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