CWGC - Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps who died on Monday, 23rd June 1947. Age 64. Nakuru Cemetery Grave Ref: Plot H Grave 2

Stand-to - "The nearest doctor was some 80 miles away and when I presented myself to him, I discovered that he was the notorious Doctor Searl [sic] of the 'Helen of Troy' scandal. Some years earlier, while in general practice in England, he had conducted a torrid and much publicised affair with a lady patient, whom the press had dubbed Helen of Troy. As a result he was struck off the medical register and had emigrated to Kenya where morals were much more practical. At the time, the Colony was very short of qualified medical personnel so, despite his past misbehaviour, he was allowed to practise.

Foster - practised in Nanyuki in 1933.

Red 31 - C.E.F. Searle, Box 11, Eldoret

Gazette 2 Feb 1937 Frederick Charles Searle in Med practitioners in Kenya

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Aberdare Voters List with Gwendoline Elsie

Nakuru North cemetery war grave. Charles Frederick Searle died 23 June 1947 aged 64. Inscription: Colonel / C F Searle / MC., TD., MA., MD., DRH. / Royal Army Medical Corps / 23rd June 1947 age 64 at the going down / of the sun / and in the morning / we will remember them

Daily Mirror 1 Dec 1933 'If it is infamous to stand by the woman you love, then I am guilty of infamous conduct.' Extract from a letter sent by Dr Searle from British East Africa. After a two day hearing the General Medical Council decided yesterday to erase the name of Dr Charles Frederick Searle from the Medical Register. Complainant in the case was Mr Johnny Dover Place, who was the plaintiff in the 'Helen of Troy' trial at Cambridge. Dr Searle denied he enticed Mrs Place to leave her husband. Then was read the following reply dated 21 June from British East Africa, which Dr Searle made to the formal notice of the charges against him: 'Whether I am struck off the Register or not I shall continue to stand by her and her little girl. If we can ever marry we shall certainly do so. The question is entirely one of morals. I deny that I have ever acted unprofessionally in my practice or failed in my duty to my country. If the Medical Council decide to drive me out of the British Empire, I shall go elsewhere'. After the Council deliberated for 20 minutes the president said 'I have to announce that the Council have found that the facts alleged against Dr Searle have been proved to their satisfaction. They have announced him to be guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect and they have directed the Registrar to erase his name from the Medical Register'. Sir Humphrey Rolleston wrote: 'Between 1925 and 1931 I saw a good deal of Charles Frederick Searle and formed a very high opinion of his essentially kind nature and the way he would exert himself to save people who were in financial or other difficulties. He seemed to me to be a man of unselfish ideals.' A letter from 18 local medical men in Cambridge, representing the entire staff of the Addenbrooke's Hospital, was also read. AIn the witness box on the first day's hearing Mr Place said: 'From the fact that Dr Searle has taken my wife who is a penniless woman and my daughter, aged nine, out of England I submit he is not a proper person to be on the medical register.'

Western Mail 1 Dec 1933 Charges against Searle were that he enticed Mrs Place to leave her husband's house and go away with him and by eloping with Mrs Place and taking with him Place's only child he had been guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect because he stood in a professional relationship with Mrs Place. Mr O'Sullivan for Mr Place said his client was a grocer's assistant at Cambridge, and at the end of 1923 or early in 1924 dr Searle became the medical attendant of his wife, himself, and his daughter. In 1930 or 1931 Mr Place became suspicious and he had his wife and Dr Searle watched. In July 1931 he got some information from a lodger who was staying at his house and he had a stormy interview with his wife. He then rang up Dr Searle who called at the house at about midnight. There was another stormy interview when Mr Place asked Dr Searle not to meet his wife, and there was a physical encounter, Mr Place getting the worst of it. At the end of it Dr Searle left the house, saying to Mrs Place, 'Come on Will'. He took her away in his motor-car and from that day she had had nothing to do with her husband.