Best - Since the Emergency, Richard Bingley had begun spending the night at Fergusson's farm for their mutual protection. Their regular routine was already established. At the end of a long working day they would  have a bath and then follow the widespread Kenya custom of sitting down to dinner in pyjamas and dressing gown. This particular evening, both men had taken off the uncomfortable revolvers they wore all day and had left the weapons on their armchairs when Fergusson's houseboy announced dinner. On entering the dining room to serve the second course, the houseboy suddenly stepped aside to admit a gang of 15 panga-slashing Mau Mau. The two whites ran for their guns, but were chopped down before they had gone more than a few yards. Both bodies were then badly mutilated, because it was essential for each of the 15 gang members to take a full share in the crime by adding cuts of his own to the general carnage.

Ione - Charles Hamilton Fergusson and Richard Bingley were killed. They were murdered as they sat at dinner. Fergusson, a tall, grey-haired man of 53, lived at Charleston Farm, Ol Kalou, in the Thomson's Falls area. Situated in the loveliest part of the Wanjohi Valley with a 1500 ft. escarpment rising above it, Charleston Farm lies at the foot of the Aberdares ..... Fergusson was one of Kenya's pioneer settlers, having emigrated from Great Britain at the beginning of the century. He had lived in the area for over 30 years, and was extremely partial to the African. Richard Bingley, Fergusson's nearest neighbour, a tall, handsome young man, had lived in Kenya nearly all his life. He had inherited his farm 2 years earlier on his 21st birthday. Since the Emergency he had been going over to Fergusson's house in the evenings to dine and sleep. ...... Bingley jumped up, but the gang were already on him. Fergusson, who tried to get a gun out of his dressing-gown pocket, had his hand hacked right off. When his body was found, his head, mutilated and partly destroyed, was almost severed from his body. Bingley's wounds were equally severe.

Richard Roy Bingley - Kenya Regiment 3753

Gazette 1 Apr 1941 probate for Norah Parry Bingley who d Nairobi 21 Nov 1940 and death of Emily Florence Bingley who d Nakuru 9 June 1939

Gazette 21 July 1953 probate

Murdered by Mau Mau on New Year's Day 1953 with Charles Fergusson. Campbell - trusted his servants.

Pembroke No. 177, 1939, Gilgil