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Name: CLELAND-SCOTT, Joan
First Date: 1925
Area: Nanyuki
Book Reference: Hut
General Information:
Possibly dau of Sinclair Ramsay Cleland-Scott
EAS 18 Feb 1954 Miss Joan Cleland-Scott has for the second time put a Mau Mau gang to flight. In the absence in Nairobi of Colonel Oulton, of whom farm she is manager, terrorists made a night attack on the labour lines, sounding bugles as they approached. The African labourers telephoned the house and beat gongs. After sending up rockets to warn neighbours, Miss Scott and Mrs Oulton, accompanied by an African houseboy and gardener, went to the attack in a motor car and the terrorists fled.