East Africa & Rhodesia - 18/10/56 - Commander E.C. Ward, who settled in the Subukia district of Kenya after the First World War, has sold his farm and intends to devote his energies to the Moral Rearmament campaign, travelling extensively.

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 21 Oct 1924 - Comdr. E.C. Ward RN

Joelson - 1928 - Subukia - ... coffee, first grown as recently as 1923 by Commander E.C. Ward.

Hut has Cdr Eric G. Ward 1922 Farm 940B Manyatta Nakuru

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Rift Valley Voters List farmer Ol Momor, Subukia

Enrolled in Navy 15 Jan 1901

Esther Eliza Hopcraft, Esther's Story, 1996 One of our neighbours was Eric Ward, a naval commander who ran his place rather like a battleship, inspecting every hut regularly, surveying his land through powerful naval binoculars and then issuing orders from his verandah through a megaphone. He was a wealthy man with a fine house filled with beautiful china and silver, but no one was allowed on the farm uninvited. As he never did invite anyone, and sent any would-be friendly callers packing, he was known as a hard, bitter, lonely man. My husband got to know him; somehow he came unintentionally to an Oxford Group meeting, and somehow he had a conversion almost as radical as St Paul's. He was like a newborn child, and wrote to the newspaper to tell everybody what had happened to him.... He had had a terrible row with another neighbour, Willie Allison. He had ridden onto his land and somehow upset Willie, who had chased him back on to his own land with a horse- whip. Now he went to Willie and apologised for whatever had caused the anger, and they became firm friends.