Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - East Africa 1906 - This bar was awarded to members of 3 KAR and EA Police who accompanied Lt. F.W.O. Maycock, DSO to the Embu district.

Lloyd-Jones - 1900 - Capt. Maycock raised a company of Masai - not a success. Saw action in punitive raids against the Kisii, Nandi and in the NFD and Somalia.  

Moyse - commanded No 3 column of the punitive expedition of the large Nandi Field Force of 1905. ..... Led a punitive expedition against a section of the Kikuyu in the Fort Hall District in 1903.  

Kenya Diary - 1902 - Fort Hall - a runner reached us today informing us that a military expedition under Maycock was entering this very country. ......... I got in touch with Maycock by heliograph, and met him just before dark. He tells me that the natives caught a settler yesterday, a white man who was trying to buy sheep from the Kihimbuini people, and that they dragged him to a village near the forest, where they pegged him down on the ground and wedged his mouth open; then the whole village man, woman and child, urinated into his mouth till he was drowned. I have never conceived that such a horrible death could be invented by the savagest of natives. ..... (burning of villages and killing of all people men and women) ....….

In the open space in the centre of the village was a sight which horrified me - a naked white man pegged out on his back, mutilated and disembowelled, his body used as a latrine by all and sundry who passed by. We washed his corpse in a stream and buried him just outside the village......

31st July 1905 - Kibigori - found Maycock and Leveson Gower, both very tired of life and grumbling like bears with sore heads. Neither of them is fit and they both suffer from liver. But what can you expect from the life they lead? They both do themselves too well, retire late to bed and rise late, and never take any exercise. I should soon be ill if I followed their example ......…

The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa

North - Appt. Lieut. EAP Mil. 9-3-1902; arr. Mombasa 3-4-1902; Kikuyuland Sept 1902; Nairobi Jan 1903; Land Grant application near Nairobi 11-1-1904; Public Officers Game Licence Nairobi 1-12-1904; resident at Fort Hall 31-12-1904; Kibigori Aug 1905; Nandi Field Force 1905-6

DSO - Joined the Suffolk Regt. 1 Dec 1897; served in India for a few years with the 2nd Battn. Of his regiment; became Lieut. 25 Aug 1899, and was then employed with the KAR from March 1902 to Sept 1907, where he held command of various columns in punitive expeditions, viz. East Africa 1902 in command; East Africa 1905; Nandi 1905-6 in command of a column; East Africa 1906 in command. He was twice mentioned in despatches; received the African General Service Medal and 4 clasps and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 13 Mar 1908) "Frederic Orby Maycock, Lieut. The Suffolk Regt. (employed with the KAR). In recognition of his services during the minor expeditions in East Africa in 1907."

He became Captain 17 Sep 1908. He was appointed Sep 1912, to the Staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as Instructor in Military History. He wrote several textbooks for the use of students of Military History, notably - "Napoleon's European Campaign and the Napoleonic Campaign of 1805."  He became Major in March 1915, and fell in the fighting near Ypres on 25 May 1915. He was last seen standing on the parapet of an enemy trench leading his men in the attack. The details above are supplied by Major Maycock's cousin, Sir Willoughby Maycock, KCMG.

Sitrep 6 - Africa General Service Medal 1902-56 - East Africa 1902 - A rare bar - awarded to 3 KAR and Police who formed the Maruka patrol - 1902 - under Lt. F.W.O. Maycock (Suffolks), against the Embu people.

EAHB 1905 - 3rd KAR