Debrett - Lieut.-Col. 15th/19th Hussars Reserve of Officers, and a FRGS; European War 1914-18, on Staff as Lieut.-Col. Northamptonshire Regt. and Tank Corps and subsequently as a Brig.-Com. with rank of Brig.-Gen. (despatches, DSO, CMG, Croix de Guerre); a MLC Kenya Colony 1920-21; cr. DSO 1917, CMG 1918

Joelson - 1928 - One of first settlers in Koru in 1911

Red 25 - Member, Kenya Land Settlement Advisory Board; President, The Nyanza Producers' Federation, FRGS, Farmer and Planter, 15th Hussars 1899-1912; service in war in EA, Egypt, Gallipoli and France

Curtis - 'A Voyage in s.s. Bajune, 1919' .... Captain Jim Belfrage, after serving in a number of Clan Line ships, came out from the United Kingdom to Kenya in 1919 to take up the offer of a good job. However, the job vanished while he was en route. He tells the story of the alternative employment he found.  'I met a man called Ambrose Smith who with Mayer of the EA Standard, Conway Harvey, and General Charrington had decided to start up a coastal service on the EA coast and I got the job as manager to start the company. It was called the East African Steam Navigation Company. Mayer, who was the leading light in this coastal venture, had gone down to Mombasa and bought a small twin screw steamer called 'Bajune'. She was really a river craft and had been used by an Italian firm on the Juba River until the British had taken her over to land troops on the German East African coast. She was in the battle of Tanga. ..…..'

East Africa & Rhodesia - 7/10/54 - Lieut.-Colonel Sydney Herbert Charrington, CMG, DSO, whose death at the age of 75 is announced, was educated at Eton and joined the 15th Hussars in 1899. For 20 years after his retirement in 1912 he lived in Kenya, except for service in the Gallipoli campaign of the 1914-18 war. He sat in the Legislative Council in 1920-21.

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Kisumu - Farmer, Muhoroni

Gazette - 26/8/1914 - Appt. - Captain S.H. Charrington, Volunteer Forces, East Africa Mounted Rifles, to be Captain, to date August 10th 1914

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 8 Sep 1919 - Brig.-Gen. S.H. Charington

Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Sydney Herbert Charrington - Farmer - Koru

Brewery - One of the first regular customers of the Kenya Brewery in 1924. Laid out and constructed Koru Golf course with T.W. Brebner in 1926.

KAD 1922 - Committee Member, REAAA (and Red 25)

Nat Probate Calendar - probate went to Norman Douglas Charrington