Campling - 1932 - Kakamega - "They were sitting in a bar one evening, which was crowded as usual, when a small slight man came in and pushed his way up to the bar to give his order between two burly miners seated on their bar stools. One of them, a giant of a man, was annoyed and asked the little man who the hell he thought he was and told him he could not come barging in like that so, quick as a flash, the little man ducked down and pulled out the feet of the barstool, which fell, and the giant with it! The giant picked himself up, now really enraged, and made a charge at the little man, but before anyone understood how or what had happened the giant lay unconscious on the floor and, while his friends clamoured round him, the little man went up to the bar again to order his drink. Keith [Campling] watched all this and was very impressed. He was himself good at self-defence and this man obviously knew what he was doing, so he called out to him and asked him to join them and tell them how he did it. It turned out that his name was Sammy Samuels and that he was a jujitsu expert …

mini-SITREP XXXIII - Legion of Frontiersmen - 1940 - B Squadron - Officer Commanding

Old Africa 33 - 1932 - My father Charles Charrington Cobb went on the Gold Rush to Kakamega ….. My father's partner was Cuthbert 'Whigs' Whigham. My father's 1920-1930 mates called him 'Cobbo' but later he was known only as Charles. If we called him Charlie we had to be prepared to run. The mine at Kakamega made enough to keep up with their day-to-day living expenses, but never had enough output to make them a fortune. At Kakamega my father met a great character, Sammy Samuels, who spent most of his life prospecting.

Hut - RISKS Ltd Mumias

1939 England and Wales Register living in Bristol 'home on leave, company director'

Barnes Langata Cemetery, Nairobi in / loving memory / of / Lt-Col R C (Sammy) / Samuels / 1896 - 1977 [no full date of death given]