Land - 1910 - Reginald S. Hall - Grazing and agricultural, 3062 acres - Nyeri District - 10/8/09 - Leasehold under Occupation Licence for 2 to 99 years from 1/7/10 - Registered 23/9/10

Red Book 1912 - R. Hall - Kyambu

Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Kenya Province - Reginald Staunton Hall, Farmer PO Nyeri

Possibly went to Australia by 1937 (Katanning eelctoral roll) - road board inspector

Tom Lawrence: The earliest record of Reginald S. Hall being in Kenya is a Land Grant applied for on 10^th Aug 1909 for 3,062 acres of grazing and agricultural land in Nyeri District, Kenya Province. It was given on a Leasehold basis from 2-99 years with effect from 1^st July 1910 for Rupees 91.86 per annum, finally formalised on 23^rd Sept 1910. (Annual Reort on the Colonies, EAP 1910-11, p. 73) On 22^nd Aug 1912, he was issued a Resident’s Game Licence in Nairobi -seemingly one that was valid for a year, as the 14 day ones are recorded separately (Licence No. 4451). His address at he time was given as C/O B T Co, Nairobi (Gazette 15 May 1913) In 1912, an R. Hall (presumed to be Reginald Staunton Hall) is recorded as being a resident in Kyambu [sic] (Red Book). Later in the same year, he paid for a gun (12 bore, double-barrelled shotgun, S/No. 6178) on 28^th Nov 1912, at the time being a resident in Athi River. Gazette 15 May 1913) 

On 8^th Feb 1916 “...a loose mule thought to have belonged to Scout Hall was seen bolting around the perimeter of Serengeti Camp, but nothing had been reported of him from the Germans. This was the day after Denniss was killed and his partner ‘Scout Hall’ went missing, At this point, it is clear that we have little on Hall and his fate. The most detail we have comes from the “Wycliffe in the War 1892 – 1916” biography for Dennis which mentions that Hall had been taken as a Prisoner of War. Assuming it was true that Hall had been taken Prisoner of War, during or subsequent to their contact with the Germans on 7^th Feb, the Officer Prisoner of War records for WW1 were check via Ancestry. Using his surname together with the date of his disappearance, country of disappearance, and unit.  There was only one hit, for the East African Intelligence Department, an Agent R. S. Hall of the East African Intelligence Department, reported missing in 1916 and repatriated on 18^th Nov 1917 (Record Number: 8317; Section: East Theatre of War). It seems most likely that Hall remained in German East Africa as a Prisoner of War, until freed by the British allied advance through that territory. 

In April 1919, an R.S. Hall (again presumably our man) applied for a Land Holder’s Game Licence for Serikwa Estate, Eldoret. It was issued on 30^th April 1919 (Licence No. 6163)⁸. As a land holder, you did not necessarily have to be the land owner. It seems this licence was renewed on 5th July 1920 (Licence No. 1543), his residence now being given as Uganda Railway, Eldoret. This time it was remarked that it was only valid for 14 days (Gazette 30 June 1920).

In 1920, there appears to be what was a civil case between R.S. hall and Ali Khan (17^th Dec 1920 -Ref. 2625/20) in which a cash deposit of 2/- was paid to the police, but was not claimed. In 1929, a list of unclaimed cash deposits was published, and this was amongst them (Gazette 7 June 1922).

In the early 1920s (1922/3), Reginald Staunton Hall is recorded as a Farmer in Nyeri, Kenya in the Electoral Roll for Kenya Province (Electoral Area No. 9) so he definitely stayed on in Kenya. Interestingly, he would have also been in Nyeri with a fellow Intelligence Department person, Martin Seth-Smith.