Land - H. Brian-Brooks leased 7725 acres at Ol' Bolossat

Land - 1909 - H.B. Brooke - Buildings, 10 acres, Kericho, 10-4-08, Registered 8-2-09

Land 1909 - B.H. Brooke - Grazing, 5000 acres - Lemek River - 2/1/08 - Leasehold for 99 years from 1/1/09 - Registered 20/12/09

Gazette - 13/9/16 - Obituary - Capt. H. Brian Brooke, 3rd Batt. Gordon Highlanders, died of wounds received in action at Mametz. First came to the Protectorate in 1907 and on 1/5/14 was appointed Asst. Transport Officer, NFD. Seconded for service with EATC in October and wounded on 3rd December in conflict with a German patrol on Longido/Namanga line. Subsequently invalided to England. A brave man and a good comrade.

Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Nairobi District - Henry Brian Brooke, Settler

Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - East Africa Transport Corps - To be Lieutenant - B. Brooke ?

Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - EATC - To be Captain - Lieutenant H. Brian Brooke

Member of Harmony Lodge - Initiated 1/4/12, age 22, Farmer, Nairobi

Hut - One of Hon Robert Carnegie's neighbours was Brian Brooke, brother of the poet Rupert Brooke [not true]. Subsequently Brian Brooke moved to Sotik.

Gazette 21/3/1917 - Probate and Administration in respect of estate of Captain Henry Brian Brooke late of Nairobi who died at London on 24/7/1916. Applied for by Captain Trevor Sheen of Njoro and Angus Fraser Macrae, Advocate, Nairobi

Turner Donovan - Brian Brooke was born in Scotland, Ed. at Clifton (but left early to prepare for colonial life at Gordon's College, Aberdeen) & Aberdeen Univ. Went to British East Africa & his nickname, Korongo, conferred on him by the Lumbwa tribe, meant "head on one side." He then tried planting in Ceylon, then Uganda. Enlisting in Africa in 1914, he became a sergeant & received a commission. Served in German East Africa (wounded) & in France as a Captain, 2nd Bn. Gordon Highlanders. Mortally wounded on 1st July 1916, Died of Wounds on 25th July

Web - Brian Brooke wrote under the name of ‘Korongo’ (‘The Big Man’ in Masai). He was born in 1889 at Lickleyhead Castle, Aberdeenshire, the third son of  Capt. H.V. Brooke of Fairley, Countesswells, Aberdeenshire formerly of the 92nd  Gordon Highlanders. His mother was Patricia Eyres Brooke. Of his three brothers, two were in the Army, one in the Navy. Due to poor eyesight, it was not possible at the time for him to enter the services and so he decided to become a colonist. He prepared himself for this by creating a body big and strong enough to support his intended lifestyle, transforming himself from a slender stripling of no special physique onto an enormously strong youth of six feet two and a half inches. At the age of eighteen he settled in British East Africa and became known not only as a big game hunter but as a friend of the natives. He was initiated as a blood brother of the Masai. With the First World War and the death of his brother Captain J.A.O. Brooke V.C. Brian returned to  his native country and got himself enlisted in the 2nd Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders. He was killed in the Great Push at Mametz commanding the right wing of the Gordons. Brian Brooke’s name was mentioned in a dispatch from Sir Douglas Haig to The Times in 1917.