Gazette - 3/2/15 - Partnership of R.J.E. Smith, W.A. Smith, N.D. Smith and Sydney Horne as Smith Bros. & Horne at Soy, dissolved 23/1/15

Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Noel Drummond Smith, Farmer PO Turbo Valley

Nicholls - The Early Settlers - Flogging was a common punishment on farms, as Noel Smith described to his mother: 'If you know of anyone anxious to go grey quickly, send them out here to handle niggers', and 'My Africans wanted a 10 instead of an 11-hour day, so I flogged the nearest, and a few more, then got them to flog the others.' - Noel Smith papers

1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Uckfield

Papers of Noel Smith, Bodleian Library Micr. Afr.590  Went to BEA with bros Will and Ronald shortly before World War 1 and purchased Farm 228, 16 miles from Eldoret near Soy. Served on the East African front in the war. 1916 in a sanatorium at Wusi with malaria. 1917 In hospital in Dar es Salaam with malaria, then Nairobi Hospital, then leave which was spent going to Lake Victoria and Uganda, then back to Dar as GSO3 on the General Staff keeping an official diary of the war , then in the cipher office. Got Spanish flu, discharged in 1919. Returned to the farm in 1919 where he raised maize, coffee and flax. Left in 1928 because of the failure of diseased coffee crops and malaria - leased the farm for 3 years. Ronald Smith returned to England in 1922.