Colonial 1912 - Staff Officer to Inspector General of Police

Web - W.K. Maturin appears on WW1 Memorial at Elizabeth College, Guernsey

Red Book 1912 - W.K. Maturin - Kericho

Red Book 1912 - Police Dept. - Assistant Superintendent

Tonbridge at War (web): IEUT. WILLIAM KYRLE MATURIN, B.E.A. AND UGANDA POLICE. DIED OF BLACKWATER FEVER ON ACTIVE SERVICE, AT NGARAMA, ANKOLE, UGANDA, JANUARY 29TH, 1915. AGED 28. At the School 1898—1901 (Day Boy and School House). W. Kyrle (Kay) Maturin was the second son of Colonel and Mrs. Fred Maturin (Mrs. Porch), and entered the School in May, 1898, together with his brothers. Kay" Maturin was very like his mother, whose fascinating 'Adventures Beyond the Zambesi' makes the call of the veldt come home to those who have never heard it aright, and was just the man for East of South Africa. He was one, like " Coffee " Hall of the old Kikuyu days, who took up the white man's burden with the proper will and the real Imperial spirit. As a sportsman he was of all men most ardent after big game, and would take any risk to secure it. He joined the South African Mounted Constabulary at the age of eighteen and, after taking part in the Lydenburg Redoubt campaign in 1904, joined the Johannesburg Mounted Police, called the " T.T.P.," and in the next two years saw much service in connection with the Chinese Labour Riots, the mine strikes, and the Dynamiters' Campaign. When this Corps was disbanded by the Dutch Government, he was very strongly and successfully recommended for a commission in the B.E.A. and Uganda Police, and after a course of instruction with the Irish Constabulary in Dublin went out to take up his commission in 1909. By good work and devotion to duty, and by his engaging manners and personality, he soon made his mark in the Uganda Police, and he held for some time an appointment as Staff Officer and A.D.C. to the Commissioner of Police. He took part in several punitive expeditions and, wherever he went, he won the affection and respect alike of his superior officers, of his own Askaris or native policemen, and also of the natives with whom he had to deal. When war broke out he was stationed in a high and healthy district near Lake Rudolph, and was in perfect health, but he was so insistent in his request to join the Expeditionary Force for German East Africa that he was finally given permission to do so. Some three months later, as the result of campaigning hardships, he contracted blackwater fever and died, after an illness of three or four days, at Ngarama, Ankole, Uganda, on January 29th, 1915. " Military honours accorded " was the terse conclusion of the cable of sympathy from the Commissioner of Police, Uganda, and his Commanding Officer wrote : " I loved him as every one did. He was my favourite of all my officers." " I would rather die than not go. Mother," he had written in one of his letters, and in another, received weeks after his death, he told her to remember that, if anything happened to him, 'at least he would be with the pick of the nation.'"