Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nakuru - C.B. Fitzgerald (British), Manager, Hotel, Nakuru

KAD 1922 - C. Fitzgerald, Committee Member, Njoro Sports Club

Was latterly General Secretary of the REAAA. Played golf for Njoro Club.

Legion - H/Major, South Irish Horse and Army Welfare Services, served in both WWs

EA & Rhodesia - 30/10/58 - Lieut.-Colonel Charles Brian Penrose Fitzgerald, who has died in Kenya at the age of 70, had for the past seven years been secretary to the Royal East African Automobile Association, and resigned that appointment owing to the serious nature of his illness just before the recent conference in Nairobi of Alliance Internationale de Tourisme. Fitzgerald - "Fish" to many old timers - began farming in the Molo area of Kenya about 1909 after spending some years in Canada, where he qualified at McGill University as a mining engineer and then served in the Canadian Mounted Police. He joined up in Nairobi on the outbreak of war in 1914, took part in the early operations in "German East", but after much malaria and a bout of blackwater fever had to be invalided to the United Kingdom.

Of South of Ireland birth, he joined the South Irish Force as soon as he was fit to do so, and saw further service in Western Europe. Returning to Kenya after demobilization, he restarted farming near Rongai, and joined the rush when gold was discovered at Kakamega in the thirties. Later he was employed by Liebigs at Athi River. At the outbreak of the last war he became a welfare officer to the forces, holding that appointment until 1951, when he went to the REAAA bringing to that body a zeal and vigour which restored a reputation which had suffered from war and post-war conditions.

Rift Valley - 17 Mar 1928 - 'This morning I tried to get on by telephone to the Club for half an hour with no result. I suggest that either the telephone be moved or an extension bell be fitted to where it can be heard.' [supported by C.B.P. Fitzgerald & D.C. Venning]

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 7 Jan 1912 - C.B.P. Fitzgerald

Red Book 1912 - C.B.P. Fitzgerald - Naivasha

Gazette 31/3/1915 - General Retail Liquor Licence - C.B.P. Fitzgerald - Nakuru Hotel with midnight privilege

Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - C.B.P. FitzGerald - Proprietor, Nakuru Hotel - Nakuru

Empire - another noteworthy stud is that owned by Lord Delamere at Soysambu under the management of Col. Fitzgerald.

Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Lieut. C.B. Penrose-Fitzgerald, The Grange, Middleton, Co. Cork - Farm 701 - Representative, A.N. Hopcraft Esq., Naivasha

Patricia Sharp comments - was my boss at Southern Area HQ. A charming man, but really past the job, which he had got on an 'old boy' basis.

Langata cemetery, Nairobi - in memory / of / my beloved husband / Charles Bryan Penrose Fitzgerald / died 8th October 1958