Hut - 1920 - BEADOC General Manager - replaced Lt-Col. Hughes Ridge

Hut - Major Trevor Hill arrived at Beadoc in 1920 with the second party of members. In the first general meeting after his appearance, Hughes Ridge was dismissed and Trevor Hill was appointed general manager. Hughes Ridge returned to Britain, owing Beadoc £1500 and leaving Beadoc's finances 'in a hopeless muddle'. ………………. Trevor Hill sailed to Britain in August 1920 to negotiate a loan from the Officers' Association, a private organisation of ex-officers, which Hughes Ridge had said was promised to Beadoc. Typically, the loan in fact had not been promised, but under Trevor Hill's urging the Association agreed to provide BEADOC with £10,000 in quarterly instalments. Trevor Hill arrived back in Kenya in January 1921 with the loan stock and the last party of Beadoc members, to discover that yet another general meeting had been held in his absence and Maj. G.L. Dymott had been appointed to replace him as general manager. Hill left Beadoc 'vowing vengeance', and initially this seemed to take the form of representations to the Officers' Association that it should cease payments of its loan.